Canada is home to 390,000 Jews — the fourth-largest Jewish community in the world.

  • FitikOP
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    -177 months ago

    Have you even read the article?

    Since then — in Canada — shots have been fired at Jewish schools, a synagogue and community centre firebombed, Swastikas painted on Jewish homes, Jewish university students and faculty intimidated and threatened, Jewish businesses vandalized, and their customers surrounded by angry demonstrators.

    • @xmunk
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      257 months ago

      Yea, that shits serious, and we need to deal with it… but can we stop painting criticism of Isreal and BDS as antisemitic? You can have legitimate concerns with Israeli foreign and internal policy without being antisemitic.

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          7 months ago

          Here’s the problem. It isn’t antisemitic, it’s anti-Nethanyahu.

          I’m happy to debate the merits of BDS (personally, I think it’s extremely ineffective) but this article that rightfully calls out legitimate antisemitism shouldn’t even mention BDS.

    • @[email protected]
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      -17 months ago

      People only read what they want to see. Which is why every comment here conveniently is skipping over the massive rise in hate crimes that Jews are facing.

      • FitikOP
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        07 months ago

        Yep, that’s sad, this reply literally got more upvotes then my original post It’s sad that people either continue to ignore the problem of antisemitism or blame Israel for it(And not antisemites)

        • @[email protected]
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          -17 months ago

          As a Jew I’m used to people finding excuses for making us “less-than”. We must at all times show everyone how we denounce civilian deaths because to everyone, we’re a singular monolith without capacity for original thought and opinion. Otherwise it’s assumed we’re monsters who support civilian casualties.

          But don’t talk about the extreme rise of hate crimes against Jews in Canada. Somehow, we deserve it.

          This place is no more progressive than Reddit.

          • FitikOP
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            7 months ago

            I know, I am Israeli Jew and don’t support or like civilians dying too, as well as majority of people I know.

            Sadly, this hate only proves how real horseshoe theory further more to me.