‘We need resolve, not sympathy’: why Canada must go on the offence against antisemitic terror
The Growth Op
Fri, Jul 31
Key Points
- Canada’s Jewish community is facing renewed violence targeting Jewish-owned businesses amid rising antisemitism.
- New data highlights the increasing antisemitism problem in Canada and other Western countries.
- The antisemitism crisis poses a national security threat, involving terror charges, disrupted plots, and foreign-funded “guns-for-hire” schemes.
- Noah Shack warns of a dangerous convergence of extremist ideology, foreign interference, and normalized political violence, calling for an urgent response.
Canada’s Jewish community is once again reeling after the latest round of violence targeting Jewish-owned businesses. This comes as new data reveals the scope of the growing antisemitism problem in both Canada and other western nations. But this crisis is also a national security threat, amid terror charges, disrupted terror plots and evidence of a foreign-funded “guns-for-hire” scheme. In this episode, Rob Breakenridge speaks with Noah Shack, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, about the severity of this threat, and what kind of response is necessary. Shack warns that we’re seeing a disturbing convergence of extremist ideology, foreign interference and a normalization of political violence.