Mark Carney labeling the assassination of two Israeli diplomats “antisemitism” highlights how unhinged from reality discussion of the subject is. Canadian politicians and the media constantly reference antisemitism but are unwilling to discuss the standing of the Jewish community.
In response to two Israeli diplomats being killed in Washington Wednesday evening Prime Minister Mark Carney declared, “This was a targeted attack against the Jewish community — a violent act of antisemitism.…. We cannot look away from the power of antisemitism and its radicalization. We must act to keep Jewish Canadians safe.”
To call killing diplomats of a state committing a holocaust “antisemitism” is to reduce the term to meaning ‘anything bad that happens to a Jewish person’. (One of the diplomats killed, Yaron Lischinsky, was born to a German Jewish father and Christian mother and is reportedly part of the messianic group Jews for Jesus.) If an American diplomat is killed is that an act of racism? An Iranian? A Brit? A Russian? A Ukrainian? Is there any other state on the planet whose diplomats work for a religion/ethnicity, not a government?
Over the past nineteen months Canadian party leaders have denounced antisemitism dozens of times on X and other social media. In a search of the Major Canadian Dailies database since October 7, 2023, the word “antisemitism” came up 4806 times while “anti-Semitism” was referenced 251 times. And a recent Israeli government report even labeled Canada the “champion of antisemitism”. (more...)
On most indicators of racism Canadian Jews fare very well
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