Opinion

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 moment will somehow fix a…

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 shared it, argued about it,…

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 full transparency, I’ve known Julien…

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 life right now: a world…

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 a “rules-based international order,” not…

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 revelation. The idea that Jews…

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 overt hostility toward Jews. They…

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 else. When more bullets tore…

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 pattern. It is sustained. It…

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. It is…