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"Toronto resembles Germany in 1938 eighty-four years ago, on Kristallnacht, Nazi thugs smashed windows of Jewish businesses and burned down synagogues."
Dear Madam Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, Ms. Deborah Lyons,
It is with deep concern that I write this open letter to you in what is perhaps the darkest hour for the Jewish people since six million were murdered in the Holocaust.
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As the child of a Holocaust survivor, I have often churned and wondered: "How could they not have seen it coming?"
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Well, now we know.
So many little sparks become an inferno, in a flash.
Jews the world over, including in Canada, are bewildered and, yes, they are terrified.
Events that would have been unthinkable on Oct. 6 became acceptable on Canadian streets overnight. "Protests" in support of Gaza have overtaken cities and towns across the country. Mixed in with Palestinian flags are more than a few Hamas and ISIL banners. Speakers and attendees openly celebrate the savage slaughter of civilian Israelis. They cheer and laugh when describing the mutilation of families, hands bound behind their backs, and forced to watch their loved ones tortured. The fortunate ones were finished off with machine gun fire. Many were doused with chemicals and their homes set on fire, leaving them to writhe and burn alive.
Babies were mutilated. And then there are the reports of violent rape and sodomy, leaving many with broken pelvises before they were murdered.
We believe there are 240 civilian hostages, give or take, from ten months to 85 years of age, kept in what we know to be dreadful conditions in the warren of Hamas tunnels. Among them are young children who saw their parents murdered and were then dragged off to the Gaza Strip by Hamas terrorists.
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We all appreciate your statement posted on "X" on Nov. 7 pledging to fight this surge in antisemitism along with your call to all Canadians to stand as allies. With one another? With their Jewish compatriots?
Canadian Jews have been living in terror since Oct. 7. Not long after Black Saturday, on October 16, your appointment as Special Envoy Combatting Antisemitism was announced by Prime Minister Trudeau. From that point until October 31, you were silent.
On that date you shared on "X" your heartfelt thoughts on the very public and intense antisemitism raging in Canada. I have followed with interest your "X" posts showing you meeting with various small groups - on campus, at synagogues - and at celebrity events
Most of Canada's 400,000 Jews have no idea that you've even been appointed, never mind what your views are. How could they?
We both know that "X" isn't real life. I'm guessing that a sliver of Canada's Jews are engaged on that platform.
So what we hear, and know - regular, everyday, Jewish Canadians - is silence.
And silence encourages the spread of the toxic Jew hatred which has been normalized in a flash.
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Physical assaults of Jewish people. Threats. Jewish businesses targeted. Schools targeted and schoolchildren harassed. Universities - a festering cesspool for years.
And then there's mezuzah mapping. It's when men, often in pairs, are noticed walking around in Jewish neighbourhoods and approach the front door of a house to see if a mezuzah is affixed to the frame. This is a religious symbol identifying the occupants of the home as being Jewish. It's a new thing, mezuzah mapping. Also new is the fact that many Jewish families have made the very difficult decision to remove their mezuzah.
There's more. Lots more.
I was contacted recently by the parent of young, Jewish children who have been bullied in school by Muslim kids. These children have told their Jewish peers that they will do to them what Hamas did to Jews in Israel. The school and police recommended a chat with the bullies' parents.
Right.
"Don't look me in the eye," said another young Muslim schoolchild to a Jewish student. "You are not a Muslim. You must look down at the ground when speaking with me."
These are school age children.
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These, Ms. Lyons, are just two examples of many. And I suggest that such grotesque antisemitism is emboldened by silence.
When we see tens of thousands of people "protest" publicly and call for the annihilation of the State of Israel and the killing of Jews; when we see Jewish-owned businesses targeted, threatened and vandalized, and there are no consequences, well, this permissiveness empowers the antisemites. Their hatred of Jews is validated. There is no social, political or legal censure.
There are, in fact, legal limits to free expression and many of these "protesters" have breached them. But no one seems to care. Same with threatening Jewish business owners and patrons and vandalizing said establishments. Still. Silence.
On Sunday, Nov. 4, following a week of virulently anti-semitic, "pro Palestinian" protests across Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau treated it all with a big yawn in an evening tweet.
"When we see or hear hateful language and imagery, we must condemn it. The display of a swastika by an individual on Parliament Hill is unacceptable. Canadians have the right to assemble peacefully - but we cannot tolerate antisemitism, Islamophobia, or hate of any kind."
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The insensitivity and ignorance conveyed in this "X" post is mind-blowing. Aside from the PM's obsession with swastikas, he is not just missing the point, he is fanning the flames. These demonstrations are not peaceful. And they have absolutely nothing to do with his other obsession - Islamophobia. His compulsive conflation of the two - particularly now - is sinister. As is his disregard of antisemitic incitement. And the vandalism of Jewish owned businesses. All swept away with a vague, disconnected "X" air bubble.
I understand that you do not control the prime minister, Madam Special Envoy. But you were well-aware, when accepting the appointment, of the government you would serve. These views are nothing new in Ottawa.
The level of Jew-hatred in Canada is so extreme, I suggest, that it has risen to a level of urgent national concern. At least, it should have.
There is nothing peaceful about demonstrations calling for the destruction of Israel. Or the murder of Jews. There is nothing peaceful about celebrating the savagery of Hamas on Oct. 7.
But let's just suspend disbelief for a moment and say, sure. It's all legal and good. Well, then I ask, where and what are our morals? As a society, as a country, do we sanction this antisemitism? Is this conduct consistent with Canadian values?
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Nov. 9 and 10 mark the 85th anniversary of the Night of Broken Glass in Germany. Kristallnacht. When Nazi thugs burned down synagogues, shattered windows of Jewish businesses, beat and murdered Jews in the streets and in their homes. Thousands were hauled off to concentration camps for no reason. Well. That's not entirely true. They were imprisoned and tortured and murdered for one reason. Because they were Jews.
Around Toronto in recent days I have seen more than a few scrawled warnings about Kristallnacht coming. Here. Similar comments are all over social media.
In Germany, 1938, Jews were fair game. Why? Because nobody spoke in their defence. In Germany or internationally. Nobody cared.
It always begins with silence. Silence is complicity. Once the hatred is unleashed it becomes very difficult to contain.
If not now, Ms. Lyons, then when? When will Jewish Canadians be represented, publicly, openly, by a bold, uncompromising voice? That we all can hear.
Because we are very fearful. And for good reason. We've seen this show before.
Respectfully yours,
vb
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