Let's start in Toronto.

About 120,000 Jews live in Toronto, a city of about 3 million residents.

In the city of Toronto, eight out of every 10 hate crimes involve what officials there call an anti-Jewish occurrence.

Then there is Montreal,

with its 90,000 Jews, and its total population of 1.8 million people. There, in the three months following October 7th, 132 hate crimes were directed at Jews. That is 10 times the number

of reported hate crimes as the entire year of

2022. In fact, there's been across Canada a 670% increase in anti-Semitic incidents since October

7th. That's in a nation of about 40 million Canadians, of whom only 350,000 are Jewish.

These data come from a blockbuster article by today's guest, published just last week.

In Canada, hardly a week goes by, it seems, where synagogues are not vandalized, burned, or shot,

and the conventions that predominate elite institutions, government, media, the NGO

sector, all hold as an orthodoxy that Israel is a unique evil, guilty of every modern

identitarian sin. How did Canada, liberal, polite Canada, become such a menacing place for its

Jewish citizens.

Welcome to the Tikva podcast. I'm your host, Jonathan Silver. My guest this week is the journalist

Terry Glavin, a columnist with The National Post, a senior fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg

Center for Human Rights, and the author of the recent article in the Free Press, The Explosion of Jew Hate in Trudeau's Canada.

The article tells the story of how a liberal country collapsed into progressive ideological commitments,

which, when applied to immigration policy, and when laced with the intersectional logic

of the left's racialized social doctrine,

then lost the capacity to resist institutional capture by the activists who most hate the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

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