The left’s alliance with Islamofascism ignited today’s anti-Semitism

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Political leaders from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow are saying all the right things about opposing anti-Semitism but are at a loss on how to put this evil genie back in the bottle.

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The problem is they can’t, because appealing to people’s better angels doesn’t work with people who hate Jews because they are Jews.

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It’s also too late because the Jew haters have been emboldened by the political left in Canada — not just the “hard left” anymore but the left — where many have, for decades, made common cause with Islamofascists like Hamas, because of their mutual hatred of Israel.

The Islamofascists do so because they hate Jews.

The “progressives” do it, if not motivated by anti-Semitism, because they hate the United States and view Israel as America’s proxy in the Mideast.

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That’s the great irony of what is happening on our streets today as Jews are suddenly on the receiving end of a level of hatred not experienced since the Holocaust.

The irony that while liberal politicians and media were rooting out every last neo-Nazi and white supremacist they could find, they ignored the intellectual justification for anti-Semitism that was spreading for decades like a cancer in our universities, among supposedly educated, intelligent and civilized people, coming from the left.

What did our politicians think would happen, for example, after the founding of the infamous Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) movement at the University of Toronto in 2005 — which subsequently spread to universities across Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere internationally?

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IAW demonized and delegitimized the world’s only Jewish state by comparing it to South Africa under apartheid, while giving a pass to such bastions of human rights as China, Russia, Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia — the same strategy the United Nation General Assembly uses every year, by passing more resolutions condemning Israel than all other nations on earth combined.

U of T’s administrators — similar to their counterparts across Canada and elsewhere — sat on their hands while left-wing professors and indoctrinated students spouted their nonsense, many hiding their anti-Semitism by calling it “anti-Zionism.”

IAW has the same goal as the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, also started in 2005 — also running amok in our universities.

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The House of Commons denounced BDS in 2016 on a Conservative motion that passed by a vote of 229-51 (supported by Trudeau and the Liberals) for promoting “the demonization and delegitimization of the State of Israel.”

But back to our friends at U of T where Jew-hatred today thrives in the same medical school that imposed a quota system on admitting Jews in the 1950s.

A report by Dr. Ayelet Kuper published in the Canadian Medical Education Journal last year — commissioned by the university after a series of anti-Semitic incidents — found a staggering level of Jew hatred among people who presumably treat or plan to treat Jewish patients.

In “Reflections on addressing anti-Semitism in a Canadian faculty of medicine” Kuper, a child of Holocaust survivors, reported that while giving a lecture on religious discrimination: “I was asked by non-Jewish learners why content about Jews ‘was being forced on the students by the Jew who bought the Faculty’…”

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They had assumed because U of T’s medical school was renamed the Temerty Faculty of Medicine (TFOM) in honour of a $250 million donation in 2023 by Canadian philanthropists James and Louise Temerty, they must be Jewish. They’re not.

This combines two false anti-Semitic stereotypes — that all Jews are wealthy and that they use their wealth to control the agendas of societal institutions such as universities.

“I personally experienced many instances of anti-Semitism,” Kuper writes of her year in the job, “including being told that all Jews are liars; that Jews lie to control the university or the faculty or the world, to oppress or hurt others, and/or for other forms of gain; and that anti-Semitism can’t exist because everything Jews say are lies, including any claims to have experienced discrimination.”

Kuper said she was repeatedly told by some staff and students within TFOM that “Zionists” and “Zionism” — support of a Jewish homeland in Israel — “means various racist and hateful things, ranging from ‘hating all Muslims’ to ‘wanting to murder all Palestinians’ … Such false definitions are then used to justify hatred of any Jews who ‘admit’ to being Zionists.”

All this coming from doctors and medical students.

And then our politicians wonder where the anti-Semitism erupting on our streets comes from.

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