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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - Where does hate come from? Lots of things. Envy, resentment, ideology, economic distress, ignorance, indifference. I’ve been writing about hate for 40 years, and I can tell you that indifference ranks pretty high up on the list, lately. Mark Carney is a practitioner of indifference. He came to a Toronto synagogue a few days ago - ostensibly to deliver a Prime Ministerial denunciation of the variant of hate that is antisemitism - and he couldn’t once articul

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Our documentary, The Campaign, has really only been seen once before - privately, with friends and family, a few weeks ago in Toronto. It was well-received. But it was friends and family. Getting invited to show it at the Tev Aviv International Documentary Festival, as we were this afternoon, was something else entirely. As I sat there in the back row, watching people leave while it was still underway, it occurred to me that The Campaign was always going to be received diffe

First showing of our documentary, The Campaign, at the DocAviv documentary festival! Today!

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - More than 9,000 kilometres away from where Mark Carney gave his big speech, the guy selling T-shirts in the Carmel shuk regards his Canadian inquisitor. After a pause, he allows that his best friend lives in Canada, in Vancouver. Does he like it? “He likes it,” the man says, then he pauses. “He also says there are many antisemites there.” He shakes his head. It’s like that a lot, here. Those who will talk, those who know something about Canada, will mentio