Terry Glavin

And I think, I mean, for people to understand this phenomenon, this thing that... that kind of burst into the consciousness of most Canadians on the 8th of October, immediately after the Simchat Torah pogrom, the atrocities undertaken by Hamas in Southern Israel at the Supernova Music Festival in the Kibbutzim around the Gaza envelope. Immediately afterwards, the event was celebrated.

actually celebrated and Hamas was praised and this was characterized as a great act of heroic resistance against the illegitimate colonial settler state of Israel and We saw this from one end of the country to the other City after city day after day week after week And what we have seen in the year and a bit since that day, a 670% increase in anti-Semitic incidents, give or take.

actually celebrated and Hamas was praised and this was characterized as a great act of heroic resistance against the illegitimate colonial settler state of Israel and We saw this from one end of the country to the other City after city day after day week after week And what we have seen in the year and a bit since that day, a 670% increase in anti-Semitic incidents, give or take.

actually celebrated and Hamas was praised and this was characterized as a great act of heroic resistance against the illegitimate colonial settler state of Israel and We saw this from one end of the country to the other City after city day after day week after week And what we have seen in the year and a bit since that day, a 670% increase in anti-Semitic incidents, give or take.

It depends on how you add it up. I mean, a lot of Jews don't even bother to call the cops anymore. There's no point. We've seen drive-by shootings at Jewish schools. We've seen synagogues firebombed. We've seen one synagogue in Toronto has been attacked half a dozen times in a few weeks. We've seen Jewish businesses smashed, their windows smashed.

It depends on how you add it up. I mean, a lot of Jews don't even bother to call the cops anymore. There's no point. We've seen drive-by shootings at Jewish schools. We've seen synagogues firebombed. We've seen one synagogue in Toronto has been attacked half a dozen times in a few weeks. We've seen Jewish businesses smashed, their windows smashed.

It depends on how you add it up. I mean, a lot of Jews don't even bother to call the cops anymore. There's no point. We've seen drive-by shootings at Jewish schools. We've seen synagogues firebombed. We've seen one synagogue in Toronto has been attacked half a dozen times in a few weeks. We've seen Jewish businesses smashed, their windows smashed.

Jewish neighborhoods, you know, throngs of anti-Zionist protesters in their neighborhoods.

Jewish neighborhoods, you know, throngs of anti-Zionist protesters in their neighborhoods.

Jewish neighborhoods, you know, throngs of anti-Zionist protesters in their neighborhoods.

Yeah, it's, there is my own, I've come to the conclusion that there's very little distinction that you can draw between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. People will have all kinds of complaints about Israel. God bless them. The Israelis do. all kinds of complaints about their own government.

Yeah, it's, there is my own, I've come to the conclusion that there's very little distinction that you can draw between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. People will have all kinds of complaints about Israel. God bless them. The Israelis do. all kinds of complaints about their own government.

Yeah, it's, there is my own, I've come to the conclusion that there's very little distinction that you can draw between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. People will have all kinds of complaints about Israel. God bless them. The Israelis do. all kinds of complaints about their own government.

And I think also it is complicated by, since October 7th, the very real, deep anguish and suffering that is being endured by the people of Gaza. I think it's very, very, very important to... notice this and to be able to talk about it. And one of the things that was really difficult for me to get at in my piece is that that's almost an impossible conversation for ordinary, decent people to have.

And I think also it is complicated by, since October 7th, the very real, deep anguish and suffering that is being endured by the people of Gaza. I think it's very, very, very important to... notice this and to be able to talk about it. And one of the things that was really difficult for me to get at in my piece is that that's almost an impossible conversation for ordinary, decent people to have.

And I think also it is complicated by, since October 7th, the very real, deep anguish and suffering that is being endured by the people of Gaza. I think it's very, very, very important to... notice this and to be able to talk about it. And one of the things that was really difficult for me to get at in my piece is that that's almost an impossible conversation for ordinary, decent people to have.

Because as soon as you begin to discuss various policy prescriptions that might be useful in getting aid and comfort to the suffering of the people of Gaza, the conversation is immediately taken over.

Because as soon as you begin to discuss various policy prescriptions that might be useful in getting aid and comfort to the suffering of the people of Gaza, the conversation is immediately taken over.

Because as soon as you begin to discuss various policy prescriptions that might be useful in getting aid and comfort to the suffering of the people of Gaza, the conversation is immediately taken over.

by a vast constituency of opinion that uses the suffering of Palestinians, sometimes imagined, but quite often real, to weaponize, weaponizing that suffering to the purpose of a deep and fanatical ideological commitment to the destruction of the state of Israel and to driving the Jews into the sea. So, you know, whether you're a Jew or a Gentile, that conversation is almost impossible to have.