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

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Political leaders from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow are saying all the appropriate issues about opposing anti-Semitism however are at a loss on how one can put this evil genie again within the bottle.

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The issue is they will’t, as a result of interesting to folks’s higher angels doesn’t work with individuals who hate Jews as a result of they’re Jews.

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It’s additionally too late as a result of the Jew haters have been emboldened by the political left in Canada — not simply the “exhausting left” anymore however the left — the place many have, for many years, made widespread trigger with Islamofascists like Hamas, due to their mutual hatred of Israel.

The Islamofascists achieve this as a result of they hate Jews.

The “progressives” do it, if not motivated by anti-Semitism, as a result of they hate the US and think about Israel as America’s proxy within the Mideast.

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That’s the nice irony of what’s taking place on our streets immediately as Jews are all of the sudden on the receiving finish of a stage of hatred not skilled because the Holocaust.

The irony that whereas liberal politicians and media had been rooting out each final neo-Nazi and white supremacist they might discover, they ignored the mental justification for anti-Semitism that was spreading for many years like a most cancers in our universities, amongst supposedly educated, clever and civilized folks, coming from the left.

What did our flesh pressers assume would occur, for instance, after the founding of the notorious Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) motion on the College of Toronto in 2005 — which subsequently unfold to universities throughout Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere internationally?

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IAW demonized and delegitimized the world’s solely Jewish state by evaluating it to South Africa beneath apartheid, whereas giving a go to such bastions of human rights as China, Russia, Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia — the identical technique the United Nation Basic Meeting makes use of yearly, by passing extra resolutions condemning Israel than all different nations on earth mixed.

U of T’s directors — much like their counterparts throughout Canada and elsewhere — sat on their fingers whereas left-wing professors and indoctrinated college students spouted their nonsense, many hiding their anti-Semitism by calling it “anti-Zionism.”

IAW has the identical aim because the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) motion towards Israel, additionally began in 2005 — additionally working amok in our universities.

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The Home of Commons denounced BDS in 2016 on a Conservative movement that handed by a vote of 229-51 (supported by Trudeau and the Liberals) for selling “the demonization and delegitimization of the State of Israel.”

However again to our pals at U of T the place Jew-hatred immediately thrives in the identical medical college that imposed a quota system on admitting Jews within the Fifties.

A report by Dr. Ayelet Kuper printed within the Canadian Medical Training Journal final yr — commissioned by the college after a collection of anti-Semitic incidents — discovered a staggering stage of Jew hatred amongst individuals who presumably deal with or plan to deal with Jewish sufferers.

In “Reflections on addressing anti-Semitism in a Canadian college of medication” Kuper, a baby of Holocaust survivors, reported that whereas giving a lecture on spiritual discrimination: “I used to be requested by non-Jewish learners why content material about Jews ‘was being compelled on the scholars by the Jew who purchased the School’…”

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That they had assumed as a result of U of T’s medical college was renamed the Temerty School of Medication (TFOM) in honour of a $250 million donation in 2023 by Canadian philanthropists James and Louise Temerty, they have to be Jewish. They’re not.

This combines two false anti-Semitic stereotypes — that every one Jews are rich and that they use their wealth to manage the agendas of societal establishments equivalent to universities.

“I personally skilled many cases of anti-Semitism,” Kuper writes of her yr within the job, “together with being informed that every one Jews are liars; that Jews lie to manage the college or the school or the world, to oppress or harm others, and/or for different types of acquire; and that anti-Semitism can’t exist as a result of every little thing Jews say are lies, together with any claims to have skilled discrimination.”

Kuper mentioned she was repeatedly informed by some workers and college students inside TFOM that “Zionists” and “Zionism” — assist of a Jewish homeland in Israel — “means numerous racist and hateful issues, starting from ‘hating all Muslims’ to ‘desirous to homicide all Palestinians’ … Such false definitions are then used to justify hatred of any Jews who ‘admit’ to being Zionists.”

All this coming from docs and medical college students.

After which our flesh pressers marvel the place the anti-Semitism erupting on our streets comes from.

lgoldstein@postmedia.com

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