Battling the rise in anti-semitism in Canada
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Summary
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.
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cases of Jewish students getting a Heil Hitler sign or being told they're not allowed to look
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at certain students in the eye because they're dogs or whatever it is. So those kinds of anecdotes.
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But then when it does come to the conflict, there is right and wrong. You know, Hamas is a terrorist
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organization. It's a listed terrorist organization in Canada. The atrocities that they committed,
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you know, were some of the most brutal, you know, outrageous acts of violence that we have seen
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in our lifetime. And since the Holocaust, as is often said, and it's okay, I think, to take a
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position on that, to be against that. And so, you know, that gets us into these campus situations.
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And, you know, it's all speech equal. And no, a speech that is promoting and glorifying,
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you know, terrorist acts by Hamas is in a category of speech that I think should be
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condemned. And it's okay to condemn certain types of speech.
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Well, that's it. I mean, inciting violence, whether it's racially based or anything else,
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is against the law in Canada. There's just no justifying doing that. That's not what we're
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about. But I mean, getting up to the higher level and where the examples are being set, we have a
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prime minister who is reticent. He always has to coach it when he will condemn. You know, we've had
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Jewish schools, multiply shot, bullets fired into the doors. There's been fire bombings. I mean,
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this is stuff we never imagined before. And the prime minister will condemn it. Good. I appreciate
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that. But he will always coach it with, as well, we have to combat Islamophobia. Well,
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fair enough, but I'm not seeing any Islamophobia. Why do you have to put that ad on every time? If we'd
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been seeing mosques attacked, then absolutely. But they're not like what? Why can't you just
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unconditionally condemn this? And I think it sets an example all the way down that this is exceptional,
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and perhaps a little more understandable than prejudices that are shown against other groups.
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Yes, precisely. I mean, we all understood during the Black Lives Matter protests, that why black people
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found it obnoxious when people countered that with what all lives matter, because you weren't,
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when you said that, you weren't acknowledging the very specific type of, you know, struggles that the
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black, particularly the American black community has faced. So you were minimizing it when you said
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all lives matter. But to your point, the same is true. There aren't any other schools in Canada that
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are being firebombed. There's only one cultural group who's having their schools firebombed, and that's
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the Jewish community. And if you can't just say that and admit it, then you can't fix the problem if
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you if you are hiding the problem. And yes, our prime minister is unwilling to look, as you say, he's
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always prepared to say the right thing in the moment or acknowledge that the firebombing happened. But you
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know, it could have happened to other people too. So we're against all firebombing to all people. He
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always does that. But, you know, he is the prime minister, he is the leader of our country. And just
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him tweeting out how upsetting it is that there's firebombings going on in his country. But it's just,
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it's not very satisfying as a response. We need to see much more action, we need to see, you know,
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the laws beefed up, we need to see him expressing a desire to see the perpetrators of those acts, you know,
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caught and prosecuted. He doesn't talk like that or say that he could be offering to provide more
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security to Jewish institutions that clearly need it. He could be doing all kinds of things that he's