EDITORIAL: Rising anti-Semitism in Canada a disgrace

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

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Recognizing the enormity of the issue, Canada’s House of Commons in February 2016 passed a motion, by an overwhelming margin of 229-51, specifically condemning the BDS movement for its “demonization and delegitimization of the State of Israel.”

BDS isn't fucking antisemitic, looping it in with legitimately antisemitic shit is truly a disgrace because you're making it harder to call out real antisemitism.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
And predictably, this article isn't about actual anti-semitism at all. It's just another cynical and dishonest attempt to conflate the boycott of Israeli products in response to Israeli government policies with actual anti-semitism.

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