By Howie Silbiger There is a growing tendency to treat Jew hatred as a branding problem rather than a moral one. As if the right slogan, the right shock, the right viral…
Category: opinion
OPINION: Concordia University Isn’t the Problem. It’s the Mirror.
By Mayer Wochyniak The National Post ran a piece this week calling Concordia University a “wretched hive of antisemitic scum and villainy.” It’s a headline built to travel, and it did. People…
OPINION: How Many Ethics Violations Does It Take to Get Re-Elected
By Howie Silbiger I ran in a school board election in 2024. I lost. I didn’t run in the same ward as Julien Feldman, so we were not direct competitors, and for…
Holocaust Memory Means Nothing While Jews Are Targeted
By Howie Silbiger Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. The words “Never Again” are spoken slowly and solemnly…And then the day ends, and the chants begin. This is the contradiction that defines Jewish…
When Leaders Sell Moral Authority and Jews Pay the Price
By Howie Silbiger Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney went to Davos and did something Canadian leaders rarely do in public, he told the truth about the world. Not the comforting fiction of…
Canada Is Failing Its Jews
By Howie Silbiger When reports began circulating that the United States was openly discussing asylum protections for Jews in the United Kingdom, it landed with a dull thud rather than a shocking…
Analysis: What François Legault’s Departure Means for Quebec’s Jews
By Joseph Marshall The resignation of François Legault closes a chapter that shaped Jewish life in Quebec more than many people like to admit. His years in office were not defined by…
Jews Are Training With Guns Because No One Else Is Protecting Them
By Howie Silbiger When bullets ripped through the doors of Yeshiva Gedola High School on an early November morning in 2023, it felt unreal, like something that happened somewhere else, to someone…
Canada’s Jewish Moment of Reckoning
By Howie Silbiger There is no longer any honest way to pretend that what Jews are experiencing in Canada and around the world is a series of isolated incidents. It is a…
Opinion: When Jews Need Guards, Democracy Has Failed
By Howie Silbiger I have lived long enough in the diaspora to recognize a pattern that many of us did not want to see. It is not just that antiJewism is back….