Anyone who knows the history of Jew hatred knows that while it starts with the Jews, it never ends with them.
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Today, in Canada, in 2024, you can be accosted and roughed up by what are laughably called “pro-Palestinian” demonstrators, for attending a political event, skating at city hall, shopping in a mall, buying a book at a bookstore, eating lunch at a restaurant, attending university or a municipal council meeting, or living in a “Zionest-infested area.”
You could be walking down the street going about your business and asking the “pro-Palestinian” demonstrators to get out of your way and become a target.
None of these things mean you have to be Jewish.
Now that we’ve left the lunatics — that is, the protesters — in charge of defining what constitutes lawful protest against Israeli military policies in the war in Gaza, as opposed to open displays of Jew hatred in Canada, we’ve lost the plot.
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Our political leaders, absurdly, keep “bothsidesing” the issue of protests against the Israel/Hamas war — constantly issuing mindless and ineffective platitudes that “anti-Semitism” and, always in the same breath, “Islamophobia,” are not acceptable in Canada.
Of course they’re not acceptable and there are hotheads on both sides of the issue who should be charged when they break the law and threaten to harm or, in fact, harm others.
But for the love of heaven can our political leaders please stop pretending these “pro-Palestinian” demonstrations are a mirror image of “pro-Israel” demonstrations?
“Pro-Israel” demonstrators are not marching into or targeting “Muslim-infested” areas of Canada for the purpose of intimidation.
You don’t see “pro-Israel” demonstrators shutting down political events, like a gala reception for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto on Saturday night, or throwing projectiles at Liberal Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen.
Newsflash for the “pro-Palestinian” crowd: None of these people are Jewish.
Then again, you don’t have to be Jewish.
You could just be someone who wants the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza to end, but who doesn’t believe that justifies protesting outside a Toronto hospital founded by Jews, that today serves people of all faiths and no faith, while ignoring Hamas’ terrorism.
Today, in Canada, even that reasonable view — and you don’t have to be Jewish to have it — could “provoke” the “pro-Palestinian” demonstrators to accuse you of supporting genocide and the murder of children.
When that happens, they will surround you as a group, because that’s what cowards do. While you try to answer the arguments of one of them, the others will harass you, from every side, yelling insults at you, their videophones pointed at your face, hoping you’ll say something provocative or try to push your way out, whereupon they’ll accuse you of assault.
You don’t have to be Jewish to have that happen to you. It could happen to anyone.
As my Toronto Sun colleague Joe Warmington has rightly observed, the “pro-Palestinian” crowds now believe they’re in charge wherever and whenever they demonstrate and that will be the lasting legacy of what has been going on in Canada ever since Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7.
This latest war between Hamas and Israel — the fifth since 2008 — will end eventually.
But the open display of Jew hatred across Canada, which can target anyone, won’t be going away, because the lunatics now know they can get away with it.
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