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.
It makes sense that the Left professoriate has adopted Critical Anti-Zionism as one of their sacred beliefs, it was pretty much inevitable after they pledged their souls to Critical Race and Gender theories. Social Justice is both the great faith of Western liberals and also the official ideology of the Western managerial classes, as it provides them with a social and moral marker that they believe displays their intellectual and moral superiority and thus their divine right to rule.
The main difference is that Critical Race and Gender are about supporting racial and sexual minorities (however simplistic their theories and mixed their results), whereas Critical Anti-Zionism posits Israel and all Jews (unless they publicly perform their opposition to Zionism) as essentially Satan and his demons, the condensed symbol of all the things they've been taught to hate—settler-colonial imperialist capitalist apartheid genocide etc—and demands Jews be constantly attacked and denounced. Also, the deep root of all Western Leftism is white guilt and white saviorism thus the professoriate believes its most sacred duty is to oppose wicked whites and help lead the poor brown oppressed on the road to liberation, and the Palestinians have crafted themselves to perform this role to perfection: they will never accept peace or compromise, they are happy to have their own people bloodied on camera and they are permanent wards of the UN-NGO classes, the indigenous brown sacred victim that sets all Leftist hearts aflame.
Social Justice is part Christian and part Marxist and both of these faiths are universalist and both have constantly turned on Jews for their stubborn particularism and their refusal to dissolve themselves for the sake of someone else's utopia. The Social Justice movement has become gradually anti-Jewish as it's also become the official belief system of almost all Western liberals, certainly the political, media and activist classes. None of these people are going to lift a finger to help Jews, as all the incentives for them point in the opposite direction.
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.
As the author states, Muslims now account for 5% of the population. Just wait a few years until they immigrate and breed themselves to 10%. Then you'll see requirements that all restaurants serve Halal food. You'll hear the Muslim call to prayer, multiple times a day, all over Canada.
By the time they hit 15%, the requirement will be for halal only. This is the progression you see as their numbers increase. Accommodations turn to requirements that then turn into exclusion of other options.
I guess Canada is the pinnacle of suicidal empathy.
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.
"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."
Every diaspora Jew must Rread Betrayal- the Failure of American Jewish Leadership. It documents comprehensively how mainstream establishment Jewish organizations have abandoned their mission. For a generation, they have failed and are doubling down on their patronizing refusal to represent Jews in America today. We are assailed by Jew hatred, from the right and left, caught in the web of so many conspiracy and intersectionality theories. Very consistently the toadies appointed by super-moneyed donors to organizations align themselves with the un-Jewish and un-American politics of the left grievance cults. It benefits them personally and socially to hobnob with the political- media- academic- entertainment doyens who are themselves in thrall to destructive ideologies and demagogues.
It names names—the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, Jewish Community Relations Councils, the Union for Reform Judaism and others.
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.
I get the impression the present Canadian government would be relieved if the Jews left. They just don't say it out loud. Of course these folks have no idea what they are talking about but this is where we are. How is it countered?
I live in Florida. No one takes Bilzerian and Fishback seriously and though they have free speech rights, they have little support. Synagogues, Federations, churches and schools are well-protected. Congregants are allowed to be armed. Unlike many other Governors, ours provides generous funding, from the state budget, for security. Pro-Pal riots were rare and immediately shut down. I’ve seen it myself.
Our schools are ranked at the top of the nation, the Tampa Bay Area is one of the fastest growing in the country, our economy is thriving, and in-state migration is one of the highest in the US.
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.
I wonder what would have changed if the Jews of Weimer were not wimps and took up arms against the Nazis before the became a threat. This is what the lesson of Israel has taught us. Crush the enemy at every turn. Overwhelm them with power and have them live in the rubble that remains.
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.
Your fellow Commonwealth nation member, Australia, is well underway following along the same Woke marxist pro-Islam Greens brick road.
It gets worse - Anarchy is starting to take over streets of Melbourne and its suburbs as police numbers decline and leftist appointed revolving door bail magistrates favour home invasion machete wielding youth criminals (aka "children"). Iraqi based operatives are fire-bombing tobacco shops, businesses, nightclubs etc, almost on a daily basis, and the State govt-CMFE union corruption continues bankrupting the State of Victoria; property & payroll taxes now at an all time high, businesses closing on a daily basis, we're losing big crowd attracting events to other states, hospital emergency queues up to 8-9hours, trains overcrowded with country passengers sitting on floors, and that's just for starters. Meanwhile our CBD stops same time every Sunday since Oct7 for the unimpeded pro-Hamas/Iran aggressive loud chanting drumming rabble and their pop-up retail shops.
Something has been nagging at me about this publication and others like it.
I read Future of Jewish regularly. The reporting matters. Documenting what is happening — the incidents, the institutional failures, the political cowardice — is necessary work and someone has to do it. I am not dismissing it.
But I keep waiting for the other half of the conversation and it never comes.
What are we going to do about it?
Not rhetorically. Concretely. Where is the unified strategy? Where is the demand — loud, specific, and non-negotiable — placed on our own organizations, the ones that have by every measure failed us? Where are the leaders standing up with a clear set of criteria, a real action plan, and an expectation that every one of us gets in the game? Where is the pressure on our own institutions that rivals the pressure being applied to us from outside?
We are very good at documenting the problem. We have become expert witnesses to our own marginalization. What we do not have — or if we have it, it is not visible here — is a movement. A unified front with teeth. A demand for results rather than another report, another survey, another carefully worded condemnation that changes nothing.
Our organizations have failed us. That is not a controversial statement — the evidence is in every issue of this publication. So why are we still waiting for those same organizations to lead us out of this? Who is building the alternative? Who is naming what success actually looks like and holding someone accountable for getting there?
I am halfway out the door on publications that only ask me to bear witness. I need this conversation to move. I need solutions, or at minimum an honest reckoning with why we don't have them yet. I need someone to stop cataloguing the damage and start talking about how we fight back — organized, unified, and with the same ferocious pride I watched fill a banquet hall in eastern Canada until there was no room left for anything else.
Check out Tafsik. It's the most activist Jewish organization I'm aware of in the Toronto area or indeed, anywhere. They recently organized the first conference in the world specifically dedicated to combating Antizionism.
I appreciate you sharing this. I'll be honest — my instinct is skeptical. We already have 12,000 Jewish organizations worldwide, and we still can't mount a unified, high-impact response to anti-Zionism. What we keep building are silos: separate boards, separate donors, elites networking with elites, while the problem grows.
What I haven't seen enough of is genuine coalition — organizations subordinating their identity to a common strategy, sharing resources, and measuring themselves by impact rather than existence.
I'll be frank as well. My instinct is beyond skeptical, rather it points to the end of the Jewish communities in Toronto & Montreal in terms of the environment in which I have lived in the former since 1989 & was born in the latter in '48 & lived in since '89. The boomers were fortunate to be born in and live through the halcyon days for Jews in post war Canada/US that started to fray around 2000 with the rise of BDS, Israeli apartheid and all the rest of the red/green bullshit that now demonizes and harasses local Jews & Jews worldwide. The numbers in the comment I posted here earlier today are working against the Jews and will worsen as the Muslim community grows and the Jewish community shrinks.
worldwide dilemma- but we will prevail and no amount of Muslims will ever conquer us. They've been trying since they copied our bible for their murderous koran. Muslim leaders must be forced to condemn anti semitism and if they don't loudly and continuously, then we need to hold them accountable not just with words. ME monarchies are figuring it out the hard way, aren't they.
Woke and social media are winning, that's why - this insidious highly selective diversity-equality -inclusion-nonsensical-anti-"colonial" ideology has already infiltrated Australia's federal & state & council regulations and now courts are implementing draconian irrational trans victory decisions against all women and girls. Men are generally being downgraded and humiliated by media and reduced employment opps; excessively weighted court decisions are being influenced by Woke/ MeToo movement & its tentacles.
Why are we surprised that the next step would be widespread antisemitism - it was sitting bubbling away just awaiting the Oct7 appalling trigger. Disempowered people and millions glued to their socially isolating mobile phones are constantly looking for someone or something to join and support, such as the now huge anonymous Western world crowd of hatred with their online zealous ridicule, as they "cancel" or blame the minority Jewish community and Israel for everything and anything.
There are positive alternatives but these require a certain amount of dedicated focus, time and constant clear thinking.
I'm active in PenPower, NAIN, bumperstickers, individual emails to Woke politicians (whilst not forgetting to thank those who are overtly supporting Israel), speaking up rationally & Refusing To Be Shouted Down, supporting my Jewish community's businesses, intentionally supporting Jewish writers both fiction & non-fiction & discussing/loaning/giving such books/publications/organisation articles such as FoJs to 'unsuspecting' friends who may be susceptible to media anti-Israel brainwashing - trying to make a difference.
In terms of " I need this conversation to move. I need solutions, or at minimum an honest reckoning with why we don't have them yet." I'm here to assure you that this ain't gonna happen. How many Jews voted for arguably the most anti-Semitic PM since Mackenzie King and think he's doing a great job? We all know many if not having such morons in our families. As well, check this out - we are lost & helpless:
I suggest the Israeli option. When October 7th happened, they didn’t wring their hands. They brought the fight to the enemy and CRUSHED them. Now, all of their leaders are dead, and the remainder are living in the rubble that Israeli power has left behind.
The entire world is unsafe for Jews. The USA. Canada. Britain. Australia.
We have always been the canary in the coal mine for civilizations. The acceptance of Islam everywhere can be traced to Vatican 2 where the Catholic Church opens it's arms to its "brothers and sisters in Abraham," completely ignoring Jews while giving us a half hearted apology for blaming us for the death of Jesus. It doesn't matter how many terrorist acts are carried out by Muslims. The world is full of cognitive dissonance. Hamas is Al Queda is Hezbollah is Boko Haram. College students cheer them on, backed by their administrations that are flooded by money from Saudi Arabia. It is sad to know how close to the surface all of this hatred was. Now it's safe to express it.
Apparently Australian universities have been flooded over past decades with ME, esp Qatar, money. This resulted in shameful administrative 3-monkeys fence-sitting responses re on-campus overt Jew-hatred, and actions such as school children as young as infant school being brain-washed by university 'educated' teachers with intifada chants etc. Labor politicians inc. PM and foreign minister Wong are internationally declared anti-Israel. Wong is rather mystifying regarding her avid islam support as she is openly lesbian - she needs a sleep-over holiday in Tehran.
Hatred of Jews, Zionism and Israel is coming from these supposed bastions of higher education, poisoned by money from Islamic countries. Catholic children are still being taught to hate and fear Jews. I just saw a resource used to educate young children in Catholic schools. It actually stated "children saw Jews and were afraid." THIS is what they are teaching TODAY. It is horrifying. How do you undo this kind of bigotry? It is a cancer that was dormant but always present - now it has retuned and metastasized with a vengeance. Our schools, our churches, our police forces, "Hollywood" idiots, our governments. We have active terrorist supporters serving in the United States Congress as we write this. And yes, "Queers for Palestine" - members who refuse to accept the reality of how they would be treated in Arab countries. My favorite was an openly gay/feminine looking black Harvard student, wearing lip gloss and proclaiming "Zionists have no right to live" on Tik Tok after 10/7 during the tent city disaster at Harvard. Supposedly intelligent people. How do we fight this kind of absurdity?
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.
Australia's current Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion (begrudgingly instigated by our overtly pro-palestinian marxist PM Albanese) is clearly indicating this antisemitic scourge is far far worse than anticipated - Royal Commission witnesses are even being actively sought out and subjected to harassment.
Now this PM & his parliamentary cohorts esp. Tony Bourke (large islamic electorate!) have lied to the public re their support for the recent return of numerous so-called "isis brides" & children - these terrorist supporting women have been given passports to replace their originals they publicly destroyed & they are now being sneakily resettled in Sydney & Melbourne, etc etc. Two to date have been charged by the Federal Police on some sort of terrorist-related basis but the media is notably retiring on this subject.
Over the past 3-4 decades I have been watching the infiltration of pro-radical islamists into our public service, universities and teaching - teachers of infant children openly teaching intifada chants in the playgrounds ('freedom of speech'), our Australian flag being ignored by politicians, schools, local councils, big businesses and instead displaying flags of aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and LGBTQIA+ etc; the overt leftist anti-Israel bigotry of our publicly funded national broadcaster the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that is blatantly ignoring its Charter of observing reporting "independence" & "supporting national identity" as it 24hourly brainwashes the public against Israel.
Huge grants of public funds are being given to specific arab & islamic organisations without binding audit requirements; an openly antisemitic artist Khaled Sabsabi is "representing" my country at the current Venice Biennale Australian pavilion; the blatant 'turning a blind eye' continues towards the seriously radical extremism preaching in mosques esp at Lakemba in New South Wales; no charges laid/pursued in numerous blatant attacks on members of our Jewish community esp. since Oct 7, numerous discriminatory removal (for their "safety") incidents of silent Jewish opposition to aggressive pro-pal. gatherings, and the State government of Victoria under Premier Jacinta Allen tacitly supporting weekly pro-Hamas/Iran rowdy chanting marches closing down Melbourne's CBD roads and causing numerous businesses to close Every Sunday since Oct 7 as well as drawing on the dwindling police force resources, et al.
Clear thinking people are shouted down and/or accused of being right wing fascists.
We are watching this concerted marxist pro-islam Woke attack on all our Australian values and against our once envied way of life. Canadians fleeing their own nightmare should not consider resettling Down Under as it's just more of the same perpetuation of hatred.
I live in Florida. I used to vacation in Canada at least once a year. I stopped going due to the epidemic of violent attacks against Jews in Canada. I believe Canada leads the world in antisemitic incidents per Jewish person. I won’t visit or buy Canadian again till Jews are safe in Canada.
Two and a half years of dispatches — the incidents, the numbers climbing, the institutions looking the other way. I had convinced myself the pressure was working. That Canadian Jews were getting quieter, smaller, more careful about how visible they allowed themselves to be.
Then I went to a wedding and found out I was wrong.
Jewish boy, Jewish girl, early thirties, eastern Canada. Two hundred and fifty people. Seven circles around the groom. Blessings in Hebrew. A rabbi who knew these families the way rabbis used to know families.
Ten minutes into the reception, the band started the hora.
I have been to Jewish weddings my entire life. I did not know what the hora was until that night.
Forty-five minutes. Locked arms, full voices, feet that did not stop because nobody wanted them to stop. Groomsmen, fathers, brothers in a chain that kept growing. Mothers and daughters doing the same. Songs I learned as a child and hadn't heard sung in decades — not performed, not prompted. Just known. Just sung.
Then someone unfurled an Israeli flag.
The couple took it. Both sets of parents took it. They were lifted on chairs and held it over their heads while two hundred and fifty people sang below them. A small flag was pressed into every hand in the room. Every hand waved it. Nobody looked around first to see if it was okay.
That's when I started to cry.
These were strong, beautiful, proud Jews — wearing it on their hearts, wearing it on their backs, not giving a damn who had a problem with it. No fear. No hesitation. No lowered voices. They are who they are and they will tell you so and they will dance it and sing it and wave it over their heads.
I had been measuring the wrong thing. I was watching what was being done to Canadian Jews and not seeing what Canadian Jews are.
They are not going anywhere. They are not going quiet. And anyone — any government, any movement, any force — that thinks the pressure will eventually work has badly misjudged who they are dealing with.
These Jews will not be moved. And if you want to try, they will fight you with everything they have. The USA needs more Jews like Canadian Jews.
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?
If not stopped, such may yet; particularly within the seemingly testing arenas of N.Y.C. under Mayor’s Mamdani; Brandon Johnson, Chicago and cronies, who appear unwilling or incapable of opposing the present day levels levels of ‘forged hate’, if not direct ‘ethno-racism ‘within each ever targeting their Jewish Constituencies —thereby seemingly seeking how much hate and civil disobedience each community will tolerate; perhaps even exceeding that of the comparable hate levels from within Germany’s rise of Naziism during the late 1920’s through the 1930’s; all the while escaping at least for the moment, the legal constructs for failure to ‘serve and protect Jewish citizenry, amongst other suspect violations: i.e. civil rights; constitutional; etc
This is a real and serious concern. I wrote an article on a safe haven for Jews - Panama - where Jewish communities thrive and where the country fully embraces them. Not everyone can or are willing to move of course and I’m keenly aware of this, however, options still exist.
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.
It makes sense that the Left professoriate has adopted Critical Anti-Zionism as one of their sacred beliefs, it was pretty much inevitable after they pledged their souls to Critical Race and Gender theories. Social Justice is both the great faith of Western liberals and also the official ideology of the Western managerial classes, as it provides them with a social and moral marker that they believe displays their intellectual and moral superiority and thus their divine right to rule.
The main difference is that Critical Race and Gender are about supporting racial and sexual minorities (however simplistic their theories and mixed their results), whereas Critical Anti-Zionism posits Israel and all Jews (unless they publicly perform their opposition to Zionism) as essentially Satan and his demons, the condensed symbol of all the things they've been taught to hate—settler-colonial imperialist capitalist apartheid genocide etc—and demands Jews be constantly attacked and denounced. Also, the deep root of all Western Leftism is white guilt and white saviorism thus the professoriate believes its most sacred duty is to oppose wicked whites and help lead the poor brown oppressed on the road to liberation, and the Palestinians have crafted themselves to perform this role to perfection: they will never accept peace or compromise, they are happy to have their own people bloodied on camera and they are permanent wards of the UN-NGO classes, the indigenous brown sacred victim that sets all Leftist hearts aflame.
Social Justice is part Christian and part Marxist and both of these faiths are universalist and both have constantly turned on Jews for their stubborn particularism and their refusal to dissolve themselves for the sake of someone else's utopia. The Social Justice movement has become gradually anti-Jewish as it's also become the official belief system of almost all Western liberals, certainly the political, media and activist classes. None of these people are going to lift a finger to help Jews, as all the incentives for them point in the opposite direction.
100%!
Maybe if they showed up in the hospital things would change.
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.
100% correct. The last place in the West is the US. If we fall, it all goes to shit.
And by the way, the Democratic Party is lost.
The Forward had an article I think it was last month about Tulsa, Oklahoma inviting Jews to move there.
As the author states, Muslims now account for 5% of the population. Just wait a few years until they immigrate and breed themselves to 10%. Then you'll see requirements that all restaurants serve Halal food. You'll hear the Muslim call to prayer, multiple times a day, all over Canada.
By the time they hit 15%, the requirement will be for halal only. This is the progression you see as their numbers increase. Accommodations turn to requirements that then turn into exclusion of other options.
I guess Canada is the pinnacle of suicidal empathy.
Fuck canada. Never should Jews even visit let alone live there.
Canadian Jews should ABSOLUTELY MOVE TO ISRAEL. Staying in Canada is a death sentence for Jews.
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.
"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."
Every diaspora Jew must Rread Betrayal- the Failure of American Jewish Leadership. It documents comprehensively how mainstream establishment Jewish organizations have abandoned their mission. For a generation, they have failed and are doubling down on their patronizing refusal to represent Jews in America today. We are assailed by Jew hatred, from the right and left, caught in the web of so many conspiracy and intersectionality theories. Very consistently the toadies appointed by super-moneyed donors to organizations align themselves with the un-Jewish and un-American politics of the left grievance cults. It benefits them personally and socially to hobnob with the political- media- academic- entertainment doyens who are themselves in thrall to destructive ideologies and demagogues.
It names names—the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, Jewish Community Relations Councils, the Union for Reform Judaism and others.
Wonderfully said, Sam.
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.
I get the impression the present Canadian government would be relieved if the Jews left. They just don't say it out loud. Of course these folks have no idea what they are talking about but this is where we are. How is it countered?
Move to a US red state, like Florida, where laws are enforced and all communities are protected.
I live in Florida. No one takes Bilzerian and Fishback seriously and though they have free speech rights, they have little support. Synagogues, Federations, churches and schools are well-protected. Congregants are allowed to be armed. Unlike many other Governors, ours provides generous funding, from the state budget, for security. Pro-Pal riots were rare and immediately shut down. I’ve seen it myself.
Our schools are ranked at the top of the nation, the Tampa Bay Area is one of the fastest growing in the country, our economy is thriving, and in-state migration is one of the highest in the US.
Yes, that Florida.
Jews are safer in areas ruled by conservatives than in areas ruled by Democrats or leftists. Its simply a fact and denying it is stupid and wrong.
In the United States, Jews love to act stupid. They continue to vote for Democrats. Absolutely crazy!
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.
I wonder what would have changed if the Jews of Weimer were not wimps and took up arms against the Nazis before the became a threat. This is what the lesson of Israel has taught us. Crush the enemy at every turn. Overwhelm them with power and have them live in the rubble that remains.
But for 20/20 hindsight. Ah well
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.
Your fellow Commonwealth nation member, Australia, is well underway following along the same Woke marxist pro-Islam Greens brick road.
It gets worse - Anarchy is starting to take over streets of Melbourne and its suburbs as police numbers decline and leftist appointed revolving door bail magistrates favour home invasion machete wielding youth criminals (aka "children"). Iraqi based operatives are fire-bombing tobacco shops, businesses, nightclubs etc, almost on a daily basis, and the State govt-CMFE union corruption continues bankrupting the State of Victoria; property & payroll taxes now at an all time high, businesses closing on a daily basis, we're losing big crowd attracting events to other states, hospital emergency queues up to 8-9hours, trains overcrowded with country passengers sitting on floors, and that's just for starters. Meanwhile our CBD stops same time every Sunday since Oct7 for the unimpeded pro-Hamas/Iran aggressive loud chanting drumming rabble and their pop-up retail shops.
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Something has been nagging at me about this publication and others like it.
I read Future of Jewish regularly. The reporting matters. Documenting what is happening — the incidents, the institutional failures, the political cowardice — is necessary work and someone has to do it. I am not dismissing it.
But I keep waiting for the other half of the conversation and it never comes.
What are we going to do about it?
Not rhetorically. Concretely. Where is the unified strategy? Where is the demand — loud, specific, and non-negotiable — placed on our own organizations, the ones that have by every measure failed us? Where are the leaders standing up with a clear set of criteria, a real action plan, and an expectation that every one of us gets in the game? Where is the pressure on our own institutions that rivals the pressure being applied to us from outside?
We are very good at documenting the problem. We have become expert witnesses to our own marginalization. What we do not have — or if we have it, it is not visible here — is a movement. A unified front with teeth. A demand for results rather than another report, another survey, another carefully worded condemnation that changes nothing.
Our organizations have failed us. That is not a controversial statement — the evidence is in every issue of this publication. So why are we still waiting for those same organizations to lead us out of this? Who is building the alternative? Who is naming what success actually looks like and holding someone accountable for getting there?
I am halfway out the door on publications that only ask me to bear witness. I need this conversation to move. I need solutions, or at minimum an honest reckoning with why we don't have them yet. I need someone to stop cataloguing the damage and start talking about how we fight back — organized, unified, and with the same ferocious pride I watched fill a banquet hall in eastern Canada until there was no room left for anything else.
Check out Tafsik. It's the most activist Jewish organization I'm aware of in the Toronto area or indeed, anywhere. They recently organized the first conference in the world specifically dedicated to combating Antizionism.
https://tafsik.com/
https://tafsik.com/event/wsaa/
I appreciate you sharing this. I'll be honest — my instinct is skeptical. We already have 12,000 Jewish organizations worldwide, and we still can't mount a unified, high-impact response to anti-Zionism. What we keep building are silos: separate boards, separate donors, elites networking with elites, while the problem grows.
What I haven't seen enough of is genuine coalition — organizations subordinating their identity to a common strategy, sharing resources, and measuring themselves by impact rather than existence.
I'll be frank as well. My instinct is beyond skeptical, rather it points to the end of the Jewish communities in Toronto & Montreal in terms of the environment in which I have lived in the former since 1989 & was born in the latter in '48 & lived in since '89. The boomers were fortunate to be born in and live through the halcyon days for Jews in post war Canada/US that started to fray around 2000 with the rise of BDS, Israeli apartheid and all the rest of the red/green bullshit that now demonizes and harasses local Jews & Jews worldwide. The numbers in the comment I posted here earlier today are working against the Jews and will worsen as the Muslim community grows and the Jewish community shrinks.
worldwide dilemma- but we will prevail and no amount of Muslims will ever conquer us. They've been trying since they copied our bible for their murderous koran. Muslim leaders must be forced to condemn anti semitism and if they don't loudly and continuously, then we need to hold them accountable not just with words. ME monarchies are figuring it out the hard way, aren't they.
Woke and social media are winning, that's why - this insidious highly selective diversity-equality -inclusion-nonsensical-anti-"colonial" ideology has already infiltrated Australia's federal & state & council regulations and now courts are implementing draconian irrational trans victory decisions against all women and girls. Men are generally being downgraded and humiliated by media and reduced employment opps; excessively weighted court decisions are being influenced by Woke/ MeToo movement & its tentacles.
Why are we surprised that the next step would be widespread antisemitism - it was sitting bubbling away just awaiting the Oct7 appalling trigger. Disempowered people and millions glued to their socially isolating mobile phones are constantly looking for someone or something to join and support, such as the now huge anonymous Western world crowd of hatred with their online zealous ridicule, as they "cancel" or blame the minority Jewish community and Israel for everything and anything.
There are positive alternatives but these require a certain amount of dedicated focus, time and constant clear thinking.
I'm active in PenPower, NAIN, bumperstickers, individual emails to Woke politicians (whilst not forgetting to thank those who are overtly supporting Israel), speaking up rationally & Refusing To Be Shouted Down, supporting my Jewish community's businesses, intentionally supporting Jewish writers both fiction & non-fiction & discussing/loaning/giving such books/publications/organisation articles such as FoJs to 'unsuspecting' friends who may be susceptible to media anti-Israel brainwashing - trying to make a difference.
In terms of " I need this conversation to move. I need solutions, or at minimum an honest reckoning with why we don't have them yet." I'm here to assure you that this ain't gonna happen. How many Jews voted for arguably the most anti-Semitic PM since Mackenzie King and think he's doing a great job? We all know many if not having such morons in our families. As well, check this out - we are lost & helpless:
https://x.com/tafsikorg/status/2061121138470887506?s=46
I suggest the Israeli option. When October 7th happened, they didn’t wring their hands. They brought the fight to the enemy and CRUSHED them. Now, all of their leaders are dead, and the remainder are living in the rubble that Israeli power has left behind.
The entire world is unsafe for Jews. The USA. Canada. Britain. Australia.
We have always been the canary in the coal mine for civilizations. The acceptance of Islam everywhere can be traced to Vatican 2 where the Catholic Church opens it's arms to its "brothers and sisters in Abraham," completely ignoring Jews while giving us a half hearted apology for blaming us for the death of Jesus. It doesn't matter how many terrorist acts are carried out by Muslims. The world is full of cognitive dissonance. Hamas is Al Queda is Hezbollah is Boko Haram. College students cheer them on, backed by their administrations that are flooded by money from Saudi Arabia. It is sad to know how close to the surface all of this hatred was. Now it's safe to express it.
Apparently Australian universities have been flooded over past decades with ME, esp Qatar, money. This resulted in shameful administrative 3-monkeys fence-sitting responses re on-campus overt Jew-hatred, and actions such as school children as young as infant school being brain-washed by university 'educated' teachers with intifada chants etc. Labor politicians inc. PM and foreign minister Wong are internationally declared anti-Israel. Wong is rather mystifying regarding her avid islam support as she is openly lesbian - she needs a sleep-over holiday in Tehran.
Hatred of Jews, Zionism and Israel is coming from these supposed bastions of higher education, poisoned by money from Islamic countries. Catholic children are still being taught to hate and fear Jews. I just saw a resource used to educate young children in Catholic schools. It actually stated "children saw Jews and were afraid." THIS is what they are teaching TODAY. It is horrifying. How do you undo this kind of bigotry? It is a cancer that was dormant but always present - now it has retuned and metastasized with a vengeance. Our schools, our churches, our police forces, "Hollywood" idiots, our governments. We have active terrorist supporters serving in the United States Congress as we write this. And yes, "Queers for Palestine" - members who refuse to accept the reality of how they would be treated in Arab countries. My favorite was an openly gay/feminine looking black Harvard student, wearing lip gloss and proclaiming "Zionists have no right to live" on Tik Tok after 10/7 during the tent city disaster at Harvard. Supposedly intelligent people. How do we fight this kind of absurdity?
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.
Australia's current Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion (begrudgingly instigated by our overtly pro-palestinian marxist PM Albanese) is clearly indicating this antisemitic scourge is far far worse than anticipated - Royal Commission witnesses are even being actively sought out and subjected to harassment.
Now this PM & his parliamentary cohorts esp. Tony Bourke (large islamic electorate!) have lied to the public re their support for the recent return of numerous so-called "isis brides" & children - these terrorist supporting women have been given passports to replace their originals they publicly destroyed & they are now being sneakily resettled in Sydney & Melbourne, etc etc. Two to date have been charged by the Federal Police on some sort of terrorist-related basis but the media is notably retiring on this subject.
Over the past 3-4 decades I have been watching the infiltration of pro-radical islamists into our public service, universities and teaching - teachers of infant children openly teaching intifada chants in the playgrounds ('freedom of speech'), our Australian flag being ignored by politicians, schools, local councils, big businesses and instead displaying flags of aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and LGBTQIA+ etc; the overt leftist anti-Israel bigotry of our publicly funded national broadcaster the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that is blatantly ignoring its Charter of observing reporting "independence" & "supporting national identity" as it 24hourly brainwashes the public against Israel.
Huge grants of public funds are being given to specific arab & islamic organisations without binding audit requirements; an openly antisemitic artist Khaled Sabsabi is "representing" my country at the current Venice Biennale Australian pavilion; the blatant 'turning a blind eye' continues towards the seriously radical extremism preaching in mosques esp at Lakemba in New South Wales; no charges laid/pursued in numerous blatant attacks on members of our Jewish community esp. since Oct 7, numerous discriminatory removal (for their "safety") incidents of silent Jewish opposition to aggressive pro-pal. gatherings, and the State government of Victoria under Premier Jacinta Allen tacitly supporting weekly pro-Hamas/Iran rowdy chanting marches closing down Melbourne's CBD roads and causing numerous businesses to close Every Sunday since Oct 7 as well as drawing on the dwindling police force resources, et al.
Clear thinking people are shouted down and/or accused of being right wing fascists.
We are watching this concerted marxist pro-islam Woke attack on all our Australian values and against our once envied way of life. Canadians fleeing their own nightmare should not consider resettling Down Under as it's just more of the same perpetuation of hatred.
I live in Florida. I used to vacation in Canada at least once a year. I stopped going due to the epidemic of violent attacks against Jews in Canada. I believe Canada leads the world in antisemitic incidents per Jewish person. I won’t visit or buy Canadian again till Jews are safe in Canada.
I had been worried about Canadian Jews.
Two and a half years of dispatches — the incidents, the numbers climbing, the institutions looking the other way. I had convinced myself the pressure was working. That Canadian Jews were getting quieter, smaller, more careful about how visible they allowed themselves to be.
Then I went to a wedding and found out I was wrong.
Jewish boy, Jewish girl, early thirties, eastern Canada. Two hundred and fifty people. Seven circles around the groom. Blessings in Hebrew. A rabbi who knew these families the way rabbis used to know families.
Ten minutes into the reception, the band started the hora.
I have been to Jewish weddings my entire life. I did not know what the hora was until that night.
Forty-five minutes. Locked arms, full voices, feet that did not stop because nobody wanted them to stop. Groomsmen, fathers, brothers in a chain that kept growing. Mothers and daughters doing the same. Songs I learned as a child and hadn't heard sung in decades — not performed, not prompted. Just known. Just sung.
Then someone unfurled an Israeli flag.
The couple took it. Both sets of parents took it. They were lifted on chairs and held it over their heads while two hundred and fifty people sang below them. A small flag was pressed into every hand in the room. Every hand waved it. Nobody looked around first to see if it was okay.
That's when I started to cry.
These were strong, beautiful, proud Jews — wearing it on their hearts, wearing it on their backs, not giving a damn who had a problem with it. No fear. No hesitation. No lowered voices. They are who they are and they will tell you so and they will dance it and sing it and wave it over their heads.
I had been measuring the wrong thing. I was watching what was being done to Canadian Jews and not seeing what Canadian Jews are.
They are not going anywhere. They are not going quiet. And anyone — any government, any movement, any force — that thinks the pressure will eventually work has badly misjudged who they are dealing with.
These Jews will not be moved. And if you want to try, they will fight you with everything they have. The USA needs more Jews like Canadian Jews.
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?
If not stopped, such may yet; particularly within the seemingly testing arenas of N.Y.C. under Mayor’s Mamdani; Brandon Johnson, Chicago and cronies, who appear unwilling or incapable of opposing the present day levels levels of ‘forged hate’, if not direct ‘ethno-racism ‘within each ever targeting their Jewish Constituencies —thereby seemingly seeking how much hate and civil disobedience each community will tolerate; perhaps even exceeding that of the comparable hate levels from within Germany’s rise of Naziism during the late 1920’s through the 1930’s; all the while escaping at least for the moment, the legal constructs for failure to ‘serve and protect Jewish citizenry, amongst other suspect violations: i.e. civil rights; constitutional; etc
This is a real and serious concern. I wrote an article on a safe haven for Jews - Panama - where Jewish communities thrive and where the country fully embraces them. Not everyone can or are willing to move of course and I’m keenly aware of this, however, options still exist.