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<\/a>Mounting Antisemitic Attacks, Institutional Failures Leave Canadian Jews Asking: Stay or Go?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\nAtara Beck<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Rabbi Daniel Korobkin, spiritual leader of Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto Congregation, Canada\u2019s largest Orthodox synagogue, moved from Los Angeles to the Greater Toronto Area in 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n Comparing Canada then and now, \u201cI think it\u2019s two completely different countries,\u201d he told\u00a0The Algemeiner<\/em>. \u201cThis isn\u2019t just my opinion. I speak to Canadians who have lived here their entire lives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Korobkin and his wife moved from the United States to Canada \u201cbecause we saw it as a\u00a0goldene medina<\/em>, just like the United States,\u201d he explained.<\/span><\/p>\n However, after then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper was unseated by Justin Trudeau in 2015, the prominent rabbi described a slow decline in the Canadian economy, followed by infringements on individual freedom during the COVID pandemic. But that \u201cdoes not necessarily spell disaster for the Jewish community because the Jewish community had not been singled out,\u201d he noted \u2014 until everything changed.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThen we got to Oct. 7, 2023,\u201d Korobkin said, referring to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas\u2019s invasion of and massacre across southern Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n Korobkin\u2019s story is one of several relayed by Jewish leaders, activists, and experts who spoke to\u00a0The Algemeiner<\/em>\u00a0about what has become an alarmingly hostile environment for Canadian Jews, many of whom are now actively discussing whether to emigrate from a country they once considered a haven.<\/span><\/p>\n Just last month, the national statistical office of\u00a0Canada revealed that Canadian Jews were the targets<\/a>\u00a0of more than 70 percent of religion-motivated hate crimes and 16.7 percent of all hate crimes, regardless of category, reported to police in 2025, despite making up less than 1 percent of the country\u2019s population.<\/span><\/p>\n According to observers on the ground, one source of this surging antisemitism is a growing Muslim population comprised largely of immigrants from regions where animus toward Israel is rampant.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThere are at least five or six times as many Muslims as Jews in Canada today, and the Muslims have organized themselves,\u201d Korobkin said. \u201cThey have really got their act together \u2026 and part of the Islamist philosophy or creed is to bring sharia law to wherever they live.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Korobkin stressed that this is \u201cnot representative of the entire Muslim community.\u201d However, he noted, \u201cin many of the radicalized Muslim voices that we see today, just like we see it in the UK and France and Australia, the creed is to dominate and silence all dissenting voices.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n According to Korobkin, the Jewish establishment in Canada is not handling the problem the way it needs to.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI think there\u2019s a certain amount of kowtowing to Canadian political leaders. It\u2019s a strategy that I don\u2019t think will work,\u201d he lamented. \u201cWhen the UJA [United Jewish Appeal] tells you that they scored a great victory in getting more security funding, all that means is that they managed to convince the government to give us more money to build higher walls and barbed-wire fences around our institutions. That\u2019s not a good way to fight antisemitism, but that\u2019s all they\u2019ve got right now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In contrast, the grassroots movements are \u201cpushing back hard,\u201d Korobkin explained. \u201cThey\u2019re saying, \u2018We\u2019re going to be in your face. We\u2019re not going to take this lying down. We\u2019re not going to retreat into our ghettos and our higher-walled fences.\u2019 And that, I think, is the difference between the CIJAs [Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs<\/a>] and UJAs on the one side and the grassroots groups like Tafsik and Unapologetically Jewish and even B\u2019nai Brith.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Korobkin argued that some Canadian politicians are more concerned with electoral considerations than confronting extremism. \u201cAnd that, I fear, is a recipe for a very dark future for the Jewish community in Canada.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean that all is lost and there\u2019s no possibility for course correction,\u201d Korobkin added. \u201cBut I will say this: There has never been a worse time to be Jewish in Canada than today, perhaps with the exception of during World War II.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The prime minister\u2019s response to antisemitism<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Prof. Irwin Cotler, international chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights and a former justice minister, served as Canada\u2019s first special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism from November 2020 to October 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n Cotler said antisemitism had historically been viewed through a \u201ctriangular paradigm\u201d of threats from the far right, far left, and radical Islam.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHowever, my principal finding at the conclusion of my first year as special envoy in 2021 was that while this conventional paradigm remained, what we were now witnessing was the mainstreaming, normalization, and legitimation of antisemitism in the political culture, the popular culture, the entertainment culture, the sports culture, and, in particular, the campus culture, the whole amidst indifference and inaction, let alone the absence of outrage,\u201d he explained.<\/span><\/p>\n In February, Prime Minister Mark Carney eliminated both the office of the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism and the office of the Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, replacing them with a broader Advisory Council on Rights, Equality, and Inclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n On June 1, in an address to the Jewish community at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto, Canada\u2019s largest synagogue,\u00a0Carney acknowledged the rise in antisemitism<\/a>\u00a0and announced the official launch of the Advisory Council, chaired by Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture Marc Miller, saying its first priority would be tackling the antisemitism crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n The Advisory Council includes lawyer Avnish Nanda and former Transport Minister Omar Alghabra.<\/span><\/p>\n Nanda has represented anti-Israel students who were evicted from an encampment at the University of Alberta.<\/span><\/p>\n Alghabra is the former president of the Canadian Arab Federation, which, after his tenure, lost federal funding over its support of Hamas and Hezbollah. In 2022, he defended his attendance at a Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group reception hosted by Nazih Khatatba, editor of an Arabic-language newspaper accused of spreading antisemitism. In 2005, Alghabra criticized then-Toronto police Chief Bill Blair for participating in a Walk with Israel event and traveling to Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n Carney\u2019s speech \u201cacknowledged the scourge of antisemitism and that the covenant with the Jewish community had been breached, but there was no reference to Israel, no reference to anti-Zionism as a cover for antisemitism, and there was no mention of the ongoing delegitimization, dehumanization, and demonization of Israel, which is what has, in effect, put a\u00a0target on the back of every Canadian Jew<\/a>,\u201d Cotler said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cRegarding the Advisory Council, as I said when it was announced, such a council, while necessary to combat all forms of hate, tends to marginalize or erase the singularity of anti-Jewish hatred, its globality, and its descent into standing threats of intimidation, harassment, violence and even terrorism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n However, Cotler added, \u201cthe inclusion of Omar Alghabra and Avnish Nanda on the committee is not the problem \u2014 it is the establishment of yet another advisory council, with a broad-based agenda and without the requisite expertise to understand and combat antisemitism, when what is needed is moral, political, and juridical leadership at the highest levels, as an expression of what Prime Minister Carney has himself called a \u2018whole of government\u2019 policy.\u201d read more….<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Mounting Antisemitic Attacks, Institutional Failures Leave Canadian Jews Asking: Stay or Go? Atara Beck The remains of a kosher restaurant in Montreal\u2019s C\u00f4te-des-Neiges neighborhood are seen after a weekend fire caused extensive damage in an incident police are investigating as possible arson amid a wave of antisemitic attacks targeting the city\u2019s Jewish community. 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