Western Standard - March 23, 2026


Is Canada becoming less safe for Jews？


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Length

1 minute

Words per minute

197.96004

Word count

317

Sentence count

6

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Canadians are starting to question the safety of being a Jew in Canada. Is it more safe to be a Jew here than in Israel? Is it safer to be Jewish in Toronto than in Jerusalem? Is Canada becoming a hotbed of anti-Semitism?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 And I guess a little bit of shame that most Canadians are not most Canadians, but some Canadians are starting to feel.
00:00:04.900 I mean, we're getting called out by from Israel and some of the others as a hotbed of anti-Semitism.
00:00:09.780 I mean, this is a nation that's prided itself on multiculturalism, on tolerance, on having a mixture of all sorts of faiths and races.
00:00:18.120 And suddenly we're actually looking like one of the less safe spots to be in the world. 0.83
00:00:22.840 You know, it's some people stating out, right, it could be less safe to be a Jew in downtown Toronto than in Jerusalem.
00:00:30.000 these days maybe in this last couple of weeks not so much but in general it's i wouldn't even say
00:00:35.000 nowadays you know you're right and it's it has changed over the last 30 40 years it has changed
00:00:42.600 anti-semitism has always been around it designers has always been there's always been some form of
00:00:47.180 jew hatred it was kind of like got squashed down now it's the forefront but we have to talk about
00:00:52.140 the fact that it's not just jews that we're not you know we're talking about the jewish community
00:00:57.200 a lot you know no one's talking about as much about the over 100 churches that have been burnt
00:01:01.960 down there's a there's a huge we're not speaking up it's like just don't say anything and it'll
00:01:07.800 stop and being unapologetic means all of us you know being unapologetically jewish means
00:01:12.440 not saying anything other than who we are and the the anti-semitism of today is a lot more
00:01:21.240 ideologically driven when we're looking at you know the line being that we're all on stolen
00:01:28.140 there's so much i can go on for hours on there's so much on on just the confusion we're living in
00:01:33.020 now when we're not in the canadian uh space we used to