GOLDSTEIN: The Israel-Hamas battle will finish – the anti-Semitism received’t

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Now that the evil of the world’s oldest type of hatred – anti-Semitism – has been on full show throughout Canada for months, what’s going to occur when the most recent battle between Hamas and Israel in Gaza is over?

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The reply is that no matter when the conflicts ends – and as exhausting as it could be to think about it can finish – the heightened stage of Jew hatred it generated in Canada isn’t going to go away.

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In consequence, many Jews dwelling in locations like Toronto with a excessive focus of Jews, won’t ever take a look at their metropolis in the identical approach once more.

There have been 4 earlier Israel-Hamas confrontations within the trendy period, however whereas all had been accompanied by a rise in anti-Semitism in Canada, the quantity and depth of it on open show has by no means reached its present ranges.

Not this quantity of hatred within the type of firebombing Jewish gathering locations, taking pictures bullets at Jewish colleges, torching and vandalizing Jewish-owned companies, portray Swastikas on synagogues and Jewish houses and organizing protests that intentionally goal Jewish neighbourhoods, describing them in a single case as a “Zionist-infested space.”

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By no means earlier than have police in Toronto, for instance, felt it essential to arrange command posts in Jewish neighborhoods within the metropolis, which have been there ever for the reason that begin of the Israel-Hamas battle on Oct 7 when Hamas launched its terrorist assault on Israel and which present no indicators of being eliminated anytime quickly.

A part of the rationale for this explosion of anti-Semitism is as a result of reality this fifth confrontation between Hamas and Israel within the trendy period has been much more lethal than the earlier ones, however there are different elements at play right here as properly.

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The open Jew hatred on show at many universities throughout Canada – and for that matter North America – has been fuelled by years of so-called “Israel Apartheid Week” campaigns, which truly began on the College of Toronto, together with the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) motion, which equally seeks to demonize and delegitimize the world’s solely Jewish state.

They’ve offered a twisted type of educational legitimacy for Jew hatred, which cowardly college directors have ignored for a era – and which isn’t going to return within the bottle as soon as a brief ceasefire within the Hamas Israel battle is achieved, as a result of all ceasefires on this battle are short-term.

Not when presidents of three of America’s most prestigious universities, when requested if calling for the genocide of Jews would violate their campus codes of conduct, couldn’t give you a straight reply, retreating right into a legalistic argument of “it relies upon.”

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As for the federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, it’s all the time been extra comfy denouncing hatred coming from the far proper than the far left.

As well as, the truth that in line with the 2021 census there are 1.8 million Muslims dwelling in Canada at this time, in comparison with 335,000 Jews, will all the time be on the minds of vote-counting politicians relating to commenting on what’s occurring within the Mideast and Canada going ahead.

Particularly relating to concurrently denouncing Islamophobia every time they point out anti-Semitism, when the fact is that whereas each types of hatred are repugnant and needs to be publicly denounced, it isn’t demonstrators who assist Israel intentionally concentrating on Muslim neighbourhoods with marches publicly proclaiming messages of hate.

The battle will finish however the reminiscence of these pictures received’t.

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