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Last time on this series, I tried to find out what's really been happening.

Is the much-talked-about surge of anti-Semitism in Canada real, or is a wave of political

protest getting misclassified?

Is anti-Zionism being conflated with anti-Semitism?

What I found was story after story of Canadians being singled out, screamed at, spat on, threatened, even violently assaulted,

not for being Zionists, but for being Jews.

However, I found other stories as well.

Stories about people who are Jewish, yes, but who would not likely have found themselves in the negative situations that they told me about just because they're Jewish.

These are stories that probably would not have happened, if not for these people's opinions, beliefs, and their actions.

I'm Jesse Brown. This is a podcast called What is Happening Here. And today, you'll hear

stories that show just how deeply into society this conflict has seeped. These stories don't

take place at synagogues. They happened at bookstores, in schools, and within unions, and inside government.

These are not simple stories of people just mining their own business and getting targeted for discrimination.

The people you're about to meet are not uncomplicated victims.

And different people will have different thoughts about what they have to say.

But what I want you to listen for is what happens next once they feel targeted or harmed.

Our first story begins with a video.

The President! No! No! The first thing we see in the video is an old man with white hair and glasses, wearing a rumpled brown suit and a cardigan, stepping out of a taxi cab onto a Toronto street at night.

Immediately he looks surprised to see that he has found himself in the middle of a sizable pro-Palestine protest.

He looks a bit lost and curious.

One of the protesters notices him.

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