Antisemitism in Canada when I was growing up was fairly easy to identify and condemn. Public exhibitions of it were rare and almost always centred around a “Hitler was right/misunderstood” view, with an occasional cadre of pan-Arab nationalists popping up to proclaim the evils of the Balfour Declaration and the restoration of a Jewish national home after 2,000 years of exile. When we walked to and from synagogue on the High Holidays with my grandparents, we didn’t even think we could be targeted for abuse or violence.
We were Jews living in the Dominion of Canada, not under communists in Russia or under the thumb of dhimmitude in the Ottoman Empire. Under Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister, the glory days of living a peaceful and safe existence in this country are over. He has allowed a toxic collection of Islamist radicals, far-left Marxists, and “anti-Zionist” Jew-haters to take root in our communities, in a political calculation to save his own electoral skin.
“There is an awful lot going on and things are not well in that respect in the City of Winnipeg,” Ruth Ashrafi, the regional director of B’nai Brith, told CTV. In Manitoba, antisemitic incidents quadrupled last year. The powder keg hasn’t yet been lit here, but it’s getting closer.
Two weeks of increasingly violent actions across the country were capped off with arrests in Montreal at the start of the Jewish New Year on Tuesday night. Two vehicles were stopped in a 15-minute period and police said t.
