, 07.30.2024 05:10 PM

Facts Matter: fires at two Jewish schools – in one week

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  1. Phil in London says:

    Great statement on a disgusting mess. You simply can’t look at the Hamas inspired gangs and justify these actions in CANADA. Not only do Jews in Canada need to call this out – EVERY CANADIAN needs to call out this repulsive sort of action.

    To be clear this is a racially motivated hate crime and not in anyway a political statement by a downtrodden muslim community. The muslim community also needs to condemn these actions.

    • Jason says:

      The Muslim community has their own share of this nightmare to deal with. They just don’t have the benefit of much media willing to broadcast their stories, even when their storefronts get smashed up in Winnipeg, even when their homes are set on fire in London.

      We cannot treat this as a zero sum game and act like one entire community owes the other. Negating the fact that not everyone under either religious banner is in total agreement with one another – this only serves to make the problem worse for everyone.

      We need leaders to come together in displays of unity. Not the unity of politicians, who carefully craft their statements to try to impress 50%+1 of the locals at the expense of everyone else – but people who can show up together and simply say cut the shit.

      We had great examples at the start of the Ukraine war. I remember quite vividly some local Ukrainian woman telling the youths to get off the doorstep of a Russian bakery, because “that old lady making pirozhki has nothing to do with this.”

      Nor, today, does the young man at the shawarma hut, or the bat mitzvah entertainer.

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