The Great White North needs to wake up

I don’t know what it will take for liberal Canadians to realize the world has changed and the old bromides no longer apply. A couple of weeks ago I wrote to Marsha Lederman, the Globe & Mail’s arts correspondent, about her support for the Canadian Human Rights Museum’s decision to host a “Nakba exhibition.” Lederman, clearly a good liberal of the old school who’s managed to block out the real world for the past several years, says she believes the “experts” at the Museum will ensure the exhibit is balanced. Earth to Marsha: It’s called the Nakba exhibition. At most, it’ll include a perfunctory nod to Yom Ha’atmaut, the Israeli War of Independence, i.e. Israel’s (more than justified) side of the story. This sort of myopic hanging on to a world long since gone characterizes far too many Canadians. Oct. 7 woke some Jewish liberal Canadians out of their slumber, but not all, and Canadians as a whole seem to be sleepwalking off a cliff. The day before the Bondi Beach massacre I was telling my wife that all it would take to make Canada seem unsafe for Jews would be a terrorist incident that killed lots of us. Well it happened in Australia, not here, but it could just as easily have happened here, and may very well happen here sooner than we think. They have Albanese and Penny Wong, we have Carney and Olivia Chow. We’re moving in parallel with them on this, and the authorities are oblivious or worse, complicit by their inaction. The ironic thing is that this will fuel Zionism and aliyah among Jews, in New York, in Australia and here in Canada, which will strengthen Israel and trade productive Jews for millions of anti-Western Muslims. Good luck with that.

Note: The featured image is of pro-palestinian protestors storming the museum in early December 2023. By March 2024, the museum had already caved in and held an event exclusively for  Palestinians and their supporters.