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<\/a>Shopify President Says Antisemitism Is \u2018Normalized\u2019 in Canada as Jews Consider Moving Out of Country<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nShiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Har<\/span>ley <\/span>Finkelstein, the <\/span>Jewish Canadian <\/span>entrepreneur who serves <\/span>as <\/span>president of the <\/span>e-commerce company <\/span>Shopify, has <\/span>warned that <\/span>antisemitism in Canada <\/span>has <\/span>become <\/span>\u201cnormalized under the <\/span>thinnest veil of <\/span>advocacy,\u201d <\/span>prompting many <\/span>Jewish Canadians <\/span>to weigh <\/span>leaving the <\/span>country, in an <\/span>interview <\/span>published this week <\/span>by the <\/span>Canadian <\/span>newspaper <\/span>National Post<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Finke<\/span>lstein <\/span>argued that <\/span>anti-Jewish <\/span>hostility is too <\/span>often excused <\/span>as <\/span>political speech. <\/span>\u201cBehavior that <\/span>would be <\/span>instantly <\/span>recognized as <\/span>bigotry <\/span>against any <\/span>other <\/span>community gets <\/span>rationalized when <\/span>Jews are the <\/span>target,\u201d he <\/span>said. <\/span>\u201cNaming it <\/span>isn\u2019t <\/span>inflammatory. It\u2019s <\/span>necessary.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n He <\/span>said he <\/span>knows Jewish <\/span>Canadian <\/span>families weighing <\/span>what he <\/span>called a \u201cPlan <\/span>B\u201d of <\/span>leaving the <\/span>country, <\/span>describing <\/span>kitchen-table conversations <\/span>that would have been <\/span>unthinkable a few years ago. \u201cThe <\/span>grandchildren of people who fled to <\/span>Canada are now asking whether they <\/span>should flee from it,\u201d he said, adding <\/span>that his own answer is to stay: \u201cI\u2019m <\/span>staying, I\u2019m building, and I\u2019m raising <\/span>my kids here proudly and visibly.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Fink<\/span>elstein\u2019s comments followed an incident <\/span>on Wednesday at Montreal\u2019s Startupfest, <\/span>a festival celebrating tech <\/span>entrepreneurs, where his on-stage <\/span>conversation with former Ultimate <\/span>Fighting Championship champion Georges <\/span>St-Pierre was interrupted by <\/span>Montreal-based anti-Israel activist and <\/span>author Yves Engler. Engler approached <\/span>the side of the stage, filmed <\/span>Finkelstein, and challenged him over <\/span>his support for Israel amid the war in <\/span>Gaza. The audience \u2014 largely tech <\/span>founders \u2014 booed Engler, and a staffer <\/span>escorted him out after Finkelstein told <\/span>him he was \u201cembarrassing yourself.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Wri<\/span>ting afterward on X, Finkelstein <\/span>described the disruption as <\/span>antisemitism \u201cdisguised under a thin <\/span>veil of advocacy,\u201d saying he had been <\/span>on stage to discuss entrepreneurship, <\/span>not politics, when the activist began <\/span>shouting accusations. He added that his <\/span>parents were in the front row. \u201cWhen <\/span>the target is always the Jew <\/span>and never the topic, it\u2019s not <\/span>advocacy. It\u2019s hate,\u201d he wrote.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Finke<\/span>lstein said it was the third time in <\/span>two years he has been publicly <\/span>confronted over his support for Israel. <\/span>His 2024 live podcast recording at <\/span>Startupfest with Indigo CEO Heather <\/span>Reisman and DAVIDsTEA founder David <\/span>Segal was interrupted by protesters, as <\/span>were his remarks at the opening of the <\/span>Finkelstein Chabad Jewish Centre in <\/span>Ottawa. Shopify and Finkelstein were <\/span>also targeted by a boycott campaign in <\/span>2025 after he publicly criticized media <\/span>coverage of Israel.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The incidents come <\/span>amid a documented surge in antisemitism <\/span>across Canada. Speaking at Holy Blossom <\/span>Temple in Toronto on June 1, Canadian <\/span>Prime Minister Mark Carney said the <\/span>country was \u201cfailing Jewish Canadians\u201d <\/span>and called the crisis \u201cspecific, severe <\/span>and demands a targeted response.\u201d <\/span>He said antisemitism had surged <\/span>to levels not seen since the years <\/span>after World War II, and that in 2025 <\/span>more than two-thirds of all <\/span>religion-motivated hate crimes in <\/span>Canada targeted Jews, who make up only <\/span>one percent of the population.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Finkelst<\/span>ein told the <\/span>National Post<\/span><\/em> that <\/span>tackling the problem requires three <\/span>steps, beginning with naming <\/span>antisemitism plainly rather than <\/span>treating it as a policy debate. He also <\/span>urged authorities to enforce existing <\/span>and new laws with real consequences, <\/span>arguing that people disrupt Jewish <\/span>events believing they will face none, <\/span>and to stop excusing harassment as <\/span>advocacy. \u201cWhat we tolerate next will <\/span>define us,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Finkelstein, <\/span>whose family fled Hungary for Canada in <\/span>the 1950s and who is descended from <\/span>Holocaust survivors, appeared last <\/span>month on <\/span>The Algemeiner<\/em>\u2019s podcast \u201cJ100\u201d<\/a> and discussed antisemitism, Israel, his family\u2019s Jewish history, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Shopify President Says Antisemitism Is \u2018Normalized\u2019 in Canada as Jews Consider Moving Out of Country Shiryn Ghermezian Harley Finkelstein, President of Shopify, speaks at the ReutersNEXT Newsmaker event in New York City, New York, U.S., November 8, 2023. Photo: REUTERS\/Brendan McDermid Harley Finkelstein, the Jewish Canadian entrepreneur who serves as president of the e-commerce company Shopify, has warned that antisemitism in Canada has become \u201cnormalized under the thinnest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[33,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132253,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132159\/revisions\/132253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Harley Finkelstein, President of Shopify, speaks at the ReutersNEXT Newsmaker event in New York City, New York, U.S., November 8, 2023. Photo: REUTERS\/Brendan McDermid<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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