#5 Why Here?
What Is Happening Here | Canadaland Investigates
Canadaland
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Why is hatred against Jews so bad in Canada, specifically? Is it because of our government? Is it the failure of the police? Is it because of Muslim immigration? On this episode, three theories, and one conclusion.
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Original Music by Socalled
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| 0:00.0 | Canada Land, funded by you. |
| 0:07.6 | What's going on in this country is scary and a disgrace. |
| 0:11.7 | This is a society that is falling apart. |
| 0:16.0 | In Canada, anti-Semitism is not a fringe thing anymore. |
| 0:20.4 | It's become institutional and it's become extremely mainstream. |
| 0:25.1 | Canada has unraveled since October 7. |
| 0:28.0 | It's been maybe one of the worst places in the West to be a Jew. |
| 0:31.8 | Canadian Jews feel there's no political will actually to defend Canada. |
| 0:50.3 | On our last two episodes, I sat down with anti-Zionists to try to understand what they believe and why they behave as they do. |
| 0:56.1 | Like the wider anti-Zionist movement, both of the people I spoke to contended that they |
| 1:01.0 | stand against racism and have no desire to harm Jews in their struggle for Palestinians. |
| 1:07.1 | And both of them acknowledged, eventually, that to some extent the harm done to Jews by some in their movement is real. |
| 1:14.6 | I think there is language used that crosses a line sometimes, that could increase anti-Semitism. |
| 1:19.9 | The unintended consequences of our demonstrations fuel the flame of that insecurity. |
| 1:27.5 | But both of them ultimately decided that is not enough of a reason for them to change what |
| 1:33.1 | they are doing. |
| 1:33.7 | As a Jew, I feel I have an obligation to be organizing protests. |
| 1:39.2 | I would like to see more protests outside of Jewish institutions. |
| 1:42.6 | That's not enough of a reason to stop doing what I'm doing. |
| 1:45.8 | That has nothing to do with me. |
| 1:48.0 | At a certain point, it's time to stop debating the obvious. |
| 1:52.2 | I'm done arguing if it's happening here. |
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