• [OT] Canada's anti-Semitism problem did not being in Belleville the other day

    From Rhino@no_offline_contact@example.com to rec.arts.tv on Fri Sep 25 12:19:25 2026
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    This discussion by journalists Brian Lilley, Warren Kinsella, and their
    editor Adrienne Batra nicely summarizes the problem Canada has had with anti-Semitism for the last few decades.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HqTknxLLFI [23 minutes]

    I'm sure there's always been *some* anti-Semitism in this country, just
    as there has been in every country, but it's gotten a lot more overt.
    Back in the day, about the worse it got was incidents were someone went
    into the Jewish cemetery and scrawled swastikas on the gravestones or
    the odd anti-Semitic remark. Now, bullets flying at Jewish buildings are
    far becoming the norm and the anti-Semitic remarks have been replaced by frequent takeovers of Jewish neighbourhoods by Muslim mobs screaming anti-Jewish epithets.

    Our politicans are doing way too little about any of this as the people
    in the video observe. I don't see it changing federally with the
    Liberals still in power and Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative Party
    have been nearly invisible since the last election. The new leader of
    the NDP, himself Jewish, is among the worst offenders. Doug Ford is
    doing some good things but Olivia Chow, poised to be re-elected next
    month since her two main rivals are essentially splitting the
    opposition, has also been useless at best, counter-productive at worst.
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    Rhino

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