Pro-Palestinian protesters have targeted Jews across Canada for months, fuelled by the vilification of Jews coming from the left
For those wondering about the dismal response of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – and most Liberal and NDP MPs – to the worst outbreak of Jew hatred in Canada since the 1930s, the answer is simple.
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Their self-proclaimed “progressive” ideologies compel them to believe, for the sake of their constant virtue-signalling, that Jew hatred only comes from skinheads, white supremacists and neo-Nazis.
Denouncing that they are comfortable with – indeed obsessed with – whether its Conservative MPs meeting with a far-right German politician, or Trudeau accusing Conservatives of standing with “people who wave swastikas” when they criticized his use of the Emergencies Act against the Freedom Convoy.
But when the hatred is coming from within their own house – from the left’s chattering classes, from so-called public intellectuals, from university professors and student associations, from doctors in university medical schools and lawyers and labour leaders – they’re paralyzed.
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That is, if they don’t already agree with the hateful views being expressed.
Last week, former B.C. NDP cabinet minister Selina Robinson, who is Jewish, resigned from the NDP caucus, saying it was rife with anti-Semitism.
This after she was drummed out of cabinet for saying Israel was created on “a crappy piece of land,” which angered pro-Palestinian groups and for which she apologized.
In response to her letter explaining her reasons for resigning, Nathan Rotman, who is Jewish, former national director of the NDP and former chief of staff to then NDP Alberta premier Rachel Notley, wrote on X that, “The letter by Robinson reflects the experiences of many in the NDP. This is not a BC problem, it’s a national one. It’s become more uncomfortable to be Jewish in the party and that’s an understatement. I haven’t left the party but it’s certainly leaving me.”
The “pro-Palestinian” demonstrations that have been targeting Jews across Canada for months, are not filled with neo-Nazis chanting “the Jews will not replace us”, marching under Confederate flags or burning Swastikas the way the KKK used to burn crosses.
These protesters are fuelled by the vilification of Jews coming from the left.
From the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which the House of Commons – on a Conservative motion – condemned in 2016 by a vote of 229-51 for promoting “the demonization and delegitimization of the State of Israel.”
From the Israel Apartheid Week campaigns, which have the same goal and which began at the University of Toronto in 2005, before infecting university campuses around the world.
Liberal and NDP politicians have lectured Canadians for years that white supremacy and neo-Nazism don’t happen in a vacuum – that they are fuelled by hate-filled, right-wing political rhetoric which they constantly condemn.
But most have gone silent since Oct. 7 about the hate-filled, left-wing political rhetoric on university campuses that provides the intellectual justification for Hamas-loving protesters to target Jewish neighbourhoods in what they call “Zionist-infested” areas.
Trudeau said last week he’s heard from many Jews that they feel intimidated by protests targeting them and that while everyone is upset about the “horrible things we are seeing” in Gaza, “hateful or harassing behaviour, particularly against neighbours, is not what we do here in Canada.”
Well, if it’s not what we do in Canada, what does Trudeau plan to do about it other than issue periodic, ineffective, motherhood expressions of concern, because the issue is about what’s been happening in Canada for more than five months?
These protesters are targeting Jews – they always have an excuse for targeting Jews – blaming them for the actions of the Israeli military in Gaza, which is classic Jew hatred, to say nothing of the fact many Jews in Canada oppose the military policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Gaza, which have led to the death of tens of thousands of Palestinians.
But in Canada today, even arguing in favour of a ceasefire, contingent on Hamas releasing the surviving hostages from the 253 it kidnapped during its terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7 – when it also raped, tortured and murdered 1,200 innocent people – is apt to get you labelled a genocide enabler and baby-killer by the “pro-Palestinian” crowd.
The actions of these demonstrators targeting Jews where they live, work and worship – the latest excuse for targeting synagogues is that they promote the sale of Israeli land stolen from the Palestinians – are as outrageous as it would be if “pro-Israel” demonstrators were targeting mosques in “Muslim-infested” areas, to protest the Islamofascist ravings of those imams in Canada who have been calling for the death of Jews in their prayers for years.
Of course if that was happening, Canada’s “progressive” politicians would be going berserk.
lgoldstein@postmedia.com
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