Trudeau announces Amira Elghawaby as Canada's first representative to combat Islamophobia

Ron in Regina

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“Hate persists when apathy prevails,” reads a new report on hate crimes by a federal government ombudsman who is supposed to be the “voice of the victim.”

Hate also persists if you just ignore it. For example, the report by the victims’ ombudsman specifically does not mention any attacks on Jews, Jewish institutions, or the alarming number of antisemitic protests in this country.

The Office of the Federal Ombudsperson for Victims of Crime reports that there was a 32 per cent increase in 2023 in the number of hate crimes reported to police but ignores the fact that attacks on Jews increased 71 per cent that year.

It’s not as if attacks on Jews were quiet, trivial, local affairs that didn’t attract any attention.
 

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“Hate persists when apathy prevails,” reads a new report on hate crimes by a federal government ombudsman who is supposed to be the “voice of the victim.”

Hate also persists if you just ignore it. For example, the report by the victims’ ombudsman specifically does not mention any attacks on Jews, Jewish institutions, or the alarming number of antisemitic protests in this country.

The Office of the Federal Ombudsperson for Victims of Crime reports that there was a 32 per cent increase in 2023 in the number of hate crimes reported to police but ignores the fact that attacks on Jews increased 71 per cent that year.

It’s not as if attacks on Jews were quiet, trivial, local affairs that didn’t attract any attention.

CBC News report
As of January 2024, CBC News reported 24 arsons and five suspected arsons at Christian churches in Canada. Nine of the arsons resulted in arrests, and 12 people were charged in relation to the arsons.

2 is 100% more than 1.
 

Ron in Regina

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You know you’re probably not doing your best as a leader to stem an ever-growing wave of hate in your country when another leader has to personally phone you up to tell you so. That’s what happened Thursday after a repeated attack on Beth Tikvah synagogue in Montreal. That’s the message that was delivered.

No doubt frustrated and exasperated to be watching the relentless attacks on synagogues and intimidation in Canadian Jewish neighbourhoods from afar, the President of the State of Israel, Isaac Herzog, took to social media platform X on Thursday to let everyone know about the conversation he had with our often mealy-mouthed-in-the-face-of-antisemitism Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
(Herzog’s tweet was in response to a second firebombing on Beth Tikvah synagogue in Montreal early Wednesday morning. The first firebombing attack was in November of 2023.)