Western Standard - Battling the rise in anti-semitism in Canada

In light of recent anti-Semitism on Canadian campuses, we take a look at the Prime Minister's response to the recent firebombing of a Jewish school in Canada, and whether or not he is doing enough to combat racism and Islamophobia in Canada.

00:00:00.000 cases of Jewish students getting a Heil Hitler sign or being told they're not allowed to look 0.82

00:00:05.960 at certain students in the eye because they're dogs or whatever it is. So those kinds of anecdotes.

00:00:11.460 But then when it does come to the conflict, there is right and wrong. You know, Hamas is a terrorist

00:00:16.420 organization. It's a listed terrorist organization in Canada. The atrocities that they committed,

00:00:23.220 you know, were some of the most brutal, you know, outrageous acts of violence that we have seen

00:00:31.080 in our lifetime. And since the Holocaust, as is often said, and it's okay, I think, to take a 0.86

00:00:37.920 position on that, to be against that. And so, you know, that gets us into these campus situations.

00:00:45.260 And, you know, it's all speech equal. And no, a speech that is promoting and glorifying,

00:00:51.860 you know, terrorist acts by Hamas is in a category of speech that I think should be 0.76

00:00:59.660 condemned. And it's okay to condemn certain types of speech.

00:01:03.700 Well, that's it. I mean, inciting violence, whether it's racially based or anything else,

00:01:08.100 is against the law in Canada. There's just no justifying doing that. That's not what we're

00:01:13.280 about. But I mean, getting up to the higher level and where the examples are being set, we have a

00:01:17.680 prime minister who is reticent. He always has to coach it when he will condemn. You know, we've had

00:01:22.560 Jewish schools, multiply shot, bullets fired into the doors. There's been fire bombings. I mean,

00:01:28.560 this is stuff we never imagined before. And the prime minister will condemn it. Good. I appreciate

00:01:33.280 that. But he will always coach it with, as well, we have to combat Islamophobia. Well,

00:01:38.760 fair enough, but I'm not seeing any Islamophobia. Why do you have to put that ad on every time? If we'd

00:01:43.900 been seeing mosques attacked, then absolutely. But they're not like what? Why can't you just 0.99

00:01:48.220 unconditionally condemn this? And I think it sets an example all the way down that this is exceptional,

00:01:54.000 and perhaps a little more understandable than prejudices that are shown against other groups.

00:01:58.980 Yes, precisely. I mean, we all understood during the Black Lives Matter protests, that why black people

00:02:08.160 found it obnoxious when people countered that with what all lives matter, because you weren't,

00:02:12.920 when you said that, you weren't acknowledging the very specific type of, you know, struggles that the

00:02:20.560 black, particularly the American black community has faced. So you were minimizing it when you said

00:02:26.500 all lives matter. But to your point, the same is true. There aren't any other schools in Canada that

00:02:33.020 are being firebombed. There's only one cultural group who's having their schools firebombed, and that's

00:02:39.340 the Jewish community. And if you can't just say that and admit it, then you can't fix the problem if 0.99

00:02:45.160 you if you are hiding the problem. And yes, our prime minister is unwilling to look, as you say, he's

00:02:52.820 always prepared to say the right thing in the moment or acknowledge that the firebombing happened. But you

00:02:56.740 know, it could have happened to other people too. So we're against all firebombing to all people. He

00:03:01.100 always does that. But, you know, he is the prime minister, he is the leader of our country. And just

00:03:07.640 him tweeting out how upsetting it is that there's firebombings going on in his country. But it's just,

00:03:14.500 it's not very satisfying as a response. We need to see much more action, we need to see, you know,

00:03:19.700 the laws beefed up, we need to see him expressing a desire to see the perpetrators of those acts, you know,

00:03:26.160 caught and prosecuted. He doesn't talk like that or say that he could be offering to provide more

00:03:31.200 security to Jewish institutions that clearly need it. He could be doing all kinds of things that he's

00:03:37.500 not prepared to do.

Western Standard - December 01, 2023

Battling the rise in anti-semitism in Canada

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