The anti-semitism that we've seen on the streets of Toronto, city streets across Canada around the world over the last seven, eight months has been truly shocking.

We knew anti-semitism was there.

We just had not seen its ugly face to the degree that we're

witnessing it now.

Hi, my name's Brian Lillie, political columnist for the Toronto son, joined today by the

Gadfather. God-Sad is a professor at Concordia University of Montreal,

he's a successful YouTube, a columnist with the National Post.

You've seen them everywhere,

and if you haven't, well then this is going to be quite the good introduction for you.

God I wanted to have you on because following you online and seeing you talk about it, you know, I can talk about anti-Semitism and the impact it's having.

But I'm not Jewish. You know, anti-Semitism is not a Jewish problem. it's a problem for non-Jews like me but you deal with the impact of it and you've got a unique perspective having lived in Montreal with a strong Jewish community for so long having I believe you said your your family came to Canada from Lebanon at age 11

Just talk to me for a little bit about how much things have changed since October 7th and and you know with the Hamas-neck campers and the protesters and the tentifadas and all of that. Yeah, well, first, thank you so much for having me on, Brian.

Look, as you mentioned, I grew up in Lebanon.

We were part of the last dwindling community of Lebanese Jews that had steadfastly remained in Lebanon,

even though my extended family had left Lebanon because the writing was on the wall that it was rather dangerous to be Jewish in the Middle East.

But Lebanon supposedly was the Paris of the Middle East, was a more tolerant and progressive place.

And so my family had stayed until we could no longer stay because the Civil War

Sergeant and it became impossible to be Jewish in Lebanon.

So then we escaped to Montreal, Canada when I was 11. And for the next 25, 30 years I lived in Montreal and of course I also lived for a while in the States. I studied in the States and I was a visiting professor in several universities in the States, but much of my life had been spent in Montreal. But then about 20 years ago I started seeing some ominous changes and then I'll come to after October 7 in a second.

And the ominous changes manifested themselves in many ways, but one of which was the very clear increase

in the Islamic demographic in Montreal, as is the case in, for example, many places in Europe.

Now, of course, I don't need...

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