Two million Muslims have ruined it for 400,000 Jews. Let's be blunt, for Jews, the Muslims are a scourge. They ruin our lives wherever they go with their psychotic, genocidal Jew-hatred.
Now that the Liberals have to a large extent absorbed much of the NDP, they can rule forever. Canada will become a one-party leftist state, like North Korea or California. (I kid a little on the second one, but not much.). Poilievre seems like a good guy, but he's too nice a guy to take on the ruthless leftists (redundant, I know) in power in Ottawa.
It might help if Alberta (and Saskatchewan) break away. It would mean the death of Canada, but is the present form of Canada even worth preserving?
I remember someone on X (I think Mark Dubowitz) indicating that Trump should offer refugee asylum to Canadian Jews. It would be a good idea, if for no other reason than the egg it would put on Carney's face.
I do not believe, despite the view of some Israeli officials, that all Canadian Jews (and all Jews in general) moving to Israel is a good idea. Putting all the world's Jews in one place would allow a second Holocaust with just two or three nuclear weapons. In fact, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader, before he was killed, explicitly state this. One can assume it is the view of the Mullahs as well. So having Canadian Jews come here, where there are enough of us to put up a fight, would help.
I have lived in a downtown Toronto neighbourhood for more than 40 years, next to the university. I have been subjected to many antisemitic comments, mostly since October 7, from both Jews and non-Jews. The two Jews, who made the comments are both completely secular. One, a professor, told me that only poor Jews were killed in the Holocaust. The rich ones all bribed their way out.
The other told me that it really is a genocide in Gaza. At least those two have both been somewhat more open to information.
The non-Jews, who have attacked me directly, are all white professionals, mostly professors. I have never been personally attacked by an immigrant from the Middle East. I only have seen their hateful rhetoric at the encampment or protests. The dangerous and entrenched ideology that is allowing Jew hatred to flourish in Canada is mostly coming from these left wing, educated, elite professionals. They are not open to new information. They truly believe that Israel is the apotheosis of evil and anyone that supports Israel is the devil incarnate, cheering on a genocide. Those are our countries leaders, and that is why they are far more dangerous than the 5% of our population that has immigrated from the Middle East. In spite of the bigotry, they have imported here, the immigrant population still has little power besides a majority vote in very few Canadian ridings.
The infiltration of our universities by a narrative directly from the Muslim Brotherhood is ruining our society.
Eli, thank you for expressing so clearly what so many Canadian Jews are feeling but often struggle to put into words.
Unlike you, I did not grow up in Canada. I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, New York, and came to Canada in 1977. I still remember becoming a Canadian citizen. I remember having tears in my eyes. I loved this country. Canadians were polite, welcoming, decent people. The streets were clean. The society felt civilized and stable. I became deeply patriotic toward Canada and remained that way for decades.
Like you, I experienced occasional antisemitic incidents over the years, but they were always on the margins. They were not mainstream. They were not socially acceptable. They stood out precisely because they were unusual.
That is what has changed.
For me personally, the worst consequence of October 7 was not only what happened in Israel. It was the loss of my faith that Canada and the United States had permanently moved beyond this kind of thing. I am a dual citizen, and October 7 shattered many assumptions I had carried for most of my life.
Ironically, the lesson many Jews seem to be rediscovering is that the only place we can truly call our national home is Israel. I have never even been there, but I now understand in a way I never fully did before why it exists and why it matters. Perhaps that is one of the few positive lessons to emerge from this terrible period.
What also frustrates me is how passive so many of our institutions and communities have become. Demonstrations take place in heavily Jewish neighborhoods. Open hostility is tolerated. Boundaries that would never be accepted elsewhere are simply accepted when directed at Jews. One has to wonder whether this would have been tolerated 30 or 40 years ago.
And that brings me to what I increasingly believe is the central problem: we still lack a unified strategy. Our large organizations remain fragmented, reactive, and hesitant while the challenges become more organized and more aggressive.
I hope that changes before it is too late. But as long as the current political and ideological trends continue, and as long as leaders continue treating antisemitism as a secondary concern, I fear the situation will continue to deteriorate before it improves.
The old antisemitism wore church robes or nationalist uniforms. The new antisemitism wears a keffiyeh, a DEI badge, and a union lanyard. That is why it moves so easily through universities, schools, activist nonprofits, labor organizations, and left-wing parties. The Islamists bring the street heat. The Marxists bring the vocabulary: colonialism, genocide, liberation, resistance. Together they make Jews the symbolic enemy of everything they hate: Israel, capitalism, whiteness, Western civilization, borders, police, and America. Canada’s Liberal establishment is doing the same math Europe did: appease the loud bloc, sacrifice the Jews, call it inclusion. History knows this script.
The year is 2026 not 1966. The source of Canadian jew hatred to clear and it is growing. It is tied directly to intersectionality and the hatred of western civilization itself. I am curious just how many Christians there are these days on Canada ( who truly believe in God and who live their lives in accordance with Christian values. Where does a Carney stand in terms of religious beliefs. Here in the US how many democrats are anti religious ( meaning anti Christianity and Judaism but slient regarding other religions)? Why should anyone believe Canada has much chance of reversing course?
This is horrifying. Late Weimar Germany. And yet it is an important accounting of what we in the U.S. are hearing snippets of every few days. I thought the situation in the U.S. was terrible but what you are describing is, at least, one or two clicks up the awfulness ladder. Please continue to keep us informed. It’s important.
What Canadians tend to ignore is that what starts with the Jews, does not end with the Jews.
My recommendation for the Canadian government right now is to allow another 2 million immigrants from the ME, especially from Gaza, since they are in danger of imminent genocide before it's too late.
Jew hate is alive and well in the United States. Jew hate is greater in Canada. Why? More Muslim immigrants, more gullible white progressives and more ignorant high school and college students to inhale and blame their personal failures and impotence on the Jews. Canadian Jews migrate to USA or better Israel before the Canadian government and agencies officially restrict your rights and well being. Canada is lost as truly free nation.
To quote a well known Jew, 'they know not what they do' - or do they?
Uk here - jewish atheist. Very frightening to look on substack at who the real 'far right uk ethnats' (white Christian Restore supporters) subscribe to. Guess what, it's jew-hating caliphatists claiming Israel set up Oct 7 etc .... so it's happening left and right now in the West. Glad my parents didn't live to see the day.
I met up with an old school now ex friend - non jewish and heavily into the protocols ... questioning the numbers in the H ffs even tho he knew my background with half my family perished there and then .... Read Howard Jacobson's long essay available on kindle - Why they will never forgive us the H' - now they're coming out with it loud and clear.
The snidey right resent us for our 'dual nationality' (see The Lotus Eaters ytube vid 'The Masks Are Off' and my comment is recommended fwiw Joke is, I used to hate Melanie Phillips myself!!) .... can see their point of view in some ways as Christian whites have no other place to go and working class whites at bottom of pile for state funding and justice.
Meanwhile, shall we atheist jews follow their instructions?
Thank you for a thoughtful and powerful article. I found it especially compelling because it traces not only the rise of antisemitic incidents, but also the gradual normalization of attitudes and institutional behaviors that make those incidents possible.
One reaction I had while reading it is that I occasionally sensed an effort to distinguish criticism of antisemitism from support for every Israeli policy. I understand why that instinct exists in today’s environment, but I worry that Jews are increasingly expected to provide such disclaimers before their concerns are taken seriously.
Reasonable people can disagree with particular actions of any Israeli government, just as they can disagree with the policies of any democratic nation. But Israel’s right to exist and defend its citizens from terrorism and other threats should not require apology or defensiveness. Antisemitism deserves to be confronted on its own terms, without first passing through a debate about Israel.
In fact, one of the troubling realities of our current moment is that many people seem willing to tolerate or rationalize antisemitism if they believe it can be linked, however tenuously, to disagreement with Israeli policies. That is a dangerous standard—one that would not be applied to any other minority community.
That said, I thought your article was an important and valuable contribution to a conversation Canada urgently needs to have. Thank you for writing it.
Two million Muslims have ruined it for 400,000 Jews. Let's be blunt, for Jews, the Muslims are a scourge. They ruin our lives wherever they go with their psychotic, genocidal Jew-hatred.
Now that the Liberals have to a large extent absorbed much of the NDP, they can rule forever. Canada will become a one-party leftist state, like North Korea or California. (I kid a little on the second one, but not much.). Poilievre seems like a good guy, but he's too nice a guy to take on the ruthless leftists (redundant, I know) in power in Ottawa.
It might help if Alberta (and Saskatchewan) break away. It would mean the death of Canada, but is the present form of Canada even worth preserving?
I remember someone on X (I think Mark Dubowitz) indicating that Trump should offer refugee asylum to Canadian Jews. It would be a good idea, if for no other reason than the egg it would put on Carney's face.
I do not believe, despite the view of some Israeli officials, that all Canadian Jews (and all Jews in general) moving to Israel is a good idea. Putting all the world's Jews in one place would allow a second Holocaust with just two or three nuclear weapons. In fact, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader, before he was killed, explicitly state this. One can assume it is the view of the Mullahs as well. So having Canadian Jews come here, where there are enough of us to put up a fight, would help.
I have lived in a downtown Toronto neighbourhood for more than 40 years, next to the university. I have been subjected to many antisemitic comments, mostly since October 7, from both Jews and non-Jews. The two Jews, who made the comments are both completely secular. One, a professor, told me that only poor Jews were killed in the Holocaust. The rich ones all bribed their way out.
The other told me that it really is a genocide in Gaza. At least those two have both been somewhat more open to information.
The non-Jews, who have attacked me directly, are all white professionals, mostly professors. I have never been personally attacked by an immigrant from the Middle East. I only have seen their hateful rhetoric at the encampment or protests. The dangerous and entrenched ideology that is allowing Jew hatred to flourish in Canada is mostly coming from these left wing, educated, elite professionals. They are not open to new information. They truly believe that Israel is the apotheosis of evil and anyone that supports Israel is the devil incarnate, cheering on a genocide. Those are our countries leaders, and that is why they are far more dangerous than the 5% of our population that has immigrated from the Middle East. In spite of the bigotry, they have imported here, the immigrant population still has little power besides a majority vote in very few Canadian ridings.
The infiltration of our universities by a narrative directly from the Muslim Brotherhood is ruining our society.
100%!
Eli, thank you for expressing so clearly what so many Canadian Jews are feeling but often struggle to put into words.
Unlike you, I did not grow up in Canada. I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, New York, and came to Canada in 1977. I still remember becoming a Canadian citizen. I remember having tears in my eyes. I loved this country. Canadians were polite, welcoming, decent people. The streets were clean. The society felt civilized and stable. I became deeply patriotic toward Canada and remained that way for decades.
Like you, I experienced occasional antisemitic incidents over the years, but they were always on the margins. They were not mainstream. They were not socially acceptable. They stood out precisely because they were unusual.
That is what has changed.
For me personally, the worst consequence of October 7 was not only what happened in Israel. It was the loss of my faith that Canada and the United States had permanently moved beyond this kind of thing. I am a dual citizen, and October 7 shattered many assumptions I had carried for most of my life.
Ironically, the lesson many Jews seem to be rediscovering is that the only place we can truly call our national home is Israel. I have never even been there, but I now understand in a way I never fully did before why it exists and why it matters. Perhaps that is one of the few positive lessons to emerge from this terrible period.
What also frustrates me is how passive so many of our institutions and communities have become. Demonstrations take place in heavily Jewish neighborhoods. Open hostility is tolerated. Boundaries that would never be accepted elsewhere are simply accepted when directed at Jews. One has to wonder whether this would have been tolerated 30 or 40 years ago.
And that brings me to what I increasingly believe is the central problem: we still lack a unified strategy. Our large organizations remain fragmented, reactive, and hesitant while the challenges become more organized and more aggressive.
I hope that changes before it is too late. But as long as the current political and ideological trends continue, and as long as leaders continue treating antisemitism as a secondary concern, I fear the situation will continue to deteriorate before it improves.
The old antisemitism wore church robes or nationalist uniforms. The new antisemitism wears a keffiyeh, a DEI badge, and a union lanyard. That is why it moves so easily through universities, schools, activist nonprofits, labor organizations, and left-wing parties. The Islamists bring the street heat. The Marxists bring the vocabulary: colonialism, genocide, liberation, resistance. Together they make Jews the symbolic enemy of everything they hate: Israel, capitalism, whiteness, Western civilization, borders, police, and America. Canada’s Liberal establishment is doing the same math Europe did: appease the loud bloc, sacrifice the Jews, call it inclusion. History knows this script.
And none of them know what they’re talking about. Just zombies screeching slogans, robotically. What’s frightening is that those in charge fear them.
The year is 2026 not 1966. The source of Canadian jew hatred to clear and it is growing. It is tied directly to intersectionality and the hatred of western civilization itself. I am curious just how many Christians there are these days on Canada ( who truly believe in God and who live their lives in accordance with Christian values. Where does a Carney stand in terms of religious beliefs. Here in the US how many democrats are anti religious ( meaning anti Christianity and Judaism but slient regarding other religions)? Why should anyone believe Canada has much chance of reversing course?
This is horrifying. Late Weimar Germany. And yet it is an important accounting of what we in the U.S. are hearing snippets of every few days. I thought the situation in the U.S. was terrible but what you are describing is, at least, one or two clicks up the awfulness ladder. Please continue to keep us informed. It’s important.
What Canadians tend to ignore is that what starts with the Jews, does not end with the Jews.
My recommendation for the Canadian government right now is to allow another 2 million immigrants from the ME, especially from Gaza, since they are in danger of imminent genocide before it's too late.
Jew hate is alive and well in the United States. Jew hate is greater in Canada. Why? More Muslim immigrants, more gullible white progressives and more ignorant high school and college students to inhale and blame their personal failures and impotence on the Jews. Canadian Jews migrate to USA or better Israel before the Canadian government and agencies officially restrict your rights and well being. Canada is lost as truly free nation.
To quote a well known Jew, 'they know not what they do' - or do they?
Uk here - jewish atheist. Very frightening to look on substack at who the real 'far right uk ethnats' (white Christian Restore supporters) subscribe to. Guess what, it's jew-hating caliphatists claiming Israel set up Oct 7 etc .... so it's happening left and right now in the West. Glad my parents didn't live to see the day.
I met up with an old school now ex friend - non jewish and heavily into the protocols ... questioning the numbers in the H ffs even tho he knew my background with half my family perished there and then .... Read Howard Jacobson's long essay available on kindle - Why they will never forgive us the H' - now they're coming out with it loud and clear.
The snidey right resent us for our 'dual nationality' (see The Lotus Eaters ytube vid 'The Masks Are Off' and my comment is recommended fwiw Joke is, I used to hate Melanie Phillips myself!!) .... can see their point of view in some ways as Christian whites have no other place to go and working class whites at bottom of pile for state funding and justice.
Meanwhile, shall we atheist jews follow their instructions?
Thank you for a thoughtful and powerful article. I found it especially compelling because it traces not only the rise of antisemitic incidents, but also the gradual normalization of attitudes and institutional behaviors that make those incidents possible.
One reaction I had while reading it is that I occasionally sensed an effort to distinguish criticism of antisemitism from support for every Israeli policy. I understand why that instinct exists in today’s environment, but I worry that Jews are increasingly expected to provide such disclaimers before their concerns are taken seriously.
Reasonable people can disagree with particular actions of any Israeli government, just as they can disagree with the policies of any democratic nation. But Israel’s right to exist and defend its citizens from terrorism and other threats should not require apology or defensiveness. Antisemitism deserves to be confronted on its own terms, without first passing through a debate about Israel.
In fact, one of the troubling realities of our current moment is that many people seem willing to tolerate or rationalize antisemitism if they believe it can be linked, however tenuously, to disagreement with Israeli policies. That is a dangerous standard—one that would not be applied to any other minority community.
That said, I thought your article was an important and valuable contribution to a conversation Canada urgently needs to have. Thank you for writing it.