A new Léger poll has found that twenty eight percent of Canadians believe Jews are responsible for the prejudice they face. In Quebec it rises to thirty six percent. That is not a handful of extremists. That is mainstream opinion.
Synagogues are vandalized in Halifax, Toronto and Montreal. Jewish schools are defaced. Pro Hamas marches fill Canadian streets shouting for the end of Israel. Instead of defending the Jewish community, Mark Carney’s government declared a Palestinian state. The timing was not careless. It was calculated. It told Canadians that Jewish pain can be brushed aside.
The poll shows the rot is generational. Thirty seven percent of Canadians aged twenty five to thirty four believe Jews bring it on themselves. A third of those aged eighteen to twenty four agree. Men are worse than women, thirty four percent to twenty two. Regionally the disease is spread evenly. Twenty eight percent in the Atlantic provinces. Twenty four percent in Ontario. Thirty percent in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Twenty one percent in Alberta. Twenty seven percent in British Columbia.
This is not a statistic to be buried in a news cycle. It is the country laid bare. A nation that blames Jews while synagogues are attacked and mobs glorify terrorists is not tolerant and it is not safe.
Canada has crossed the line from ignoring antisemitism to excusing it.
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