Rally Round the Flag, Jihadis
On Nov. 17, the Palestinian flag was raised for the first time in front of Toronto’s city hall. There had been a great deal of protest from Jewish activists in anticipation of this event, but to no avail. Toronto’s mayor, Olivia Chow, is a prominent member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), Canada’s equivalent of America’s Democratic Socialists, and one might say she is Mamdani lite. Unlike New York’s mayor-elect, she has no charisma and no charm, but she’s a dyed-in-the-wool leftist with similar principles. In response to a letter-writing campaign, she explained that the decision had been made by “staff” according to the rules treating all “nationalities” the same. And since Palestine is now officially a state, Prime Minister Mark Carney having recognized it as such on September 21, that was that. Never mind that Hamas had thanked him for the favor and immediately withdrew from the ceasefire talks that were then in progress, and this so-called state is not yet a member of the United Nations. (RELATED: Mark Carney Is Incredibly Dangerous)
In the wake of this event, my junior high school teacher — who also happens to be my oldest living friend — has announced that he and his wife want to move to Israel. They no longer feel comfortable living in Canada. He is 96 years old, and she is 99, but they won’t be the oldest Israeli immigrants. Recently, that record was set by 100-year-old Sarah Unterberg, who immigrated from Uruguay. I imagine that my parents, were they still alive, would also by now be feeling uncomfortable living in Canada.
My parents were Holocaust survivors who had survived by fleeing to the Soviet Union. They were separated when my father was drafted into the Soviet army and lost their first child due to a shortage of medicine, but miraculously, they somehow both survived. (About a third of the Polish Jews who had survived by fleeing Poland to the Soviet Union had perished due to the harsh war conditions.) After the War, they returned to Poland to pick up the pieces, but there was nothing much to pick up since literally everyone who had not fled had perished. Moreover, even after the Holocaust, there was a huge pogrom in the Polish town of Kielce. My parents were so shocked when they heard about it that once again, they felt the need to flee. They were smuggled out of Poland by an organization called the Bricha, which was composed of partisans and Jewish Palestinians, who were what Israelis were called before the founding of the Jewish state. Even then, the preborn state was trying to save Diaspora Jews.
There was no government support for refugees in Canada back then. My father went to work in a sweatshop a day or two after our arrival, and we set about pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. Our first residence was a one-room cold-water flat on the third floor of a Victorian house on Huron just north of Dundas. I still remember heating water on the stove for the tin bathtub in the middle of the floor, the chamber pot, and the nice Japanese lady who lived below us, who returned my little ball on the soft end of a broom when I dropped it into her kitchen from a hole in the floor. My father expanded his workweek to 70 hours as quickly as he could and maintained that pace until his retirement. Once we were settled and starting to get comfortable, my father would remark from time to time that Canada was “a golden land…the best country in the whole world.” (RELATED: Friends May Betray Us, but Choose Agency)
Before the Trudeau regime, both Liberals and Conservatives believed in Canada’s merit-based immigration system.
My parents both passed away about 10 years ago, just before the Liberal Party under the leadership of Justin Trudeau came to power. Though I wish that they were still alive, I cannot help but be grateful that they did not live to see what has happened to Canada since they passed on. Had they lived, they would be both frightened and appalled because of the enormous increase in antisemitism in Canada under Trudeau’s rule, especially since 10/7. There was already antisemitism in Canada when we arrived, but it wasn’t nearly as virulent as it is now, and, on the contrary, for most of my parents’ lives, Canada, like America, became an increasingly more tolerant country.
Before the Trudeau regime, both Liberals and Conservatives believed in Canada’s merit-based immigration system. That is no more. Moreover, Canada’s immigration quotas have gone through the roof, and its borders have become extremely porous. The present immigration policy does not sit well with most immigrant families like mine, nor with immigrants from all sorts of other backgrounds where chaos and tyranny prevailed. The Liberal immigration policy has dismayed many legal immigrants, in particular because it is largely due to it that Canada has increasingly come to resemble the countries from which we fled.
Under Mark Carney, Canada is continuing along the path set by Justin Trudeau, which allows and even tacitly encourages Canada to increasingly become a country whose Jewish minority continues to be harassed, intimidated, and threatened. It is now a commonplace, with the advent of the “globalize the intifada” movement, that supporters of terrorists have themselves become terrorists. Since 10/7 in Canada, a Toronto Jewish school has been shot at 3 times, synagogues in Toronto and Montreal have been firebombed, and Jewish businesses have been vandalized.
Carney, like Trudeau before him, is a dyed-in-the-wool globalist elitist, and notoriously, they do not do what the people want but rather the bidding of their little club of plutocrats. Though it is not as far down the road to perdition, Canada has been following Europe’s lead rather than America’s under President Trump. However, if Canada continues along the same trajectory, then Canada’s Jews will be forced to get the hell out of Dodge. (RELATED: Canada: A Socialist Paradise Lost)
It is noteworthy that one prominent group that has been experiencing a higher level of antisemitism than others is students in medical school. The cause of this is evident. Canada, like America, is not producing enough home-grown doctors to meet the country’s need, and much of the deficit is being imported from countries such as Pakistan, where Jew-hatred is prevalent and considered normal. Recently, the Jewish Medical Association of Ontario (JMAO) did a survey of Jewish medical students. “JMAO organizers pronounced themselves ‘stunned’ to discover 80 percent of respondents — about 380 people — had faced antisemitism at work since October 7, 39 percent in hospitals, and 43 percent in academic institutions. Thirty-one percent of respondents from Ontario — about 150 people — are considering emigrating to the U.S. or Israel on that account.” A similar thing is happening in Australia, where recently a tranche of about 100 Jewish doctors announced that they are emigrating to Israel.
Israel could use the extra doctors, but one cannot help wonder what happens to countries like Canada and Australia when all the Jews have left. Time will tell, but if so-called liberal democracies cannot protect any given minority, how will they be able to protect the rest, because it never ends with the Jews. In any case, it is astounding to think that the evil of Jew hatred has followed families like my own from one country to the next within the course of a mere three generations.
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