Jewish community leaders and a former Liberal justice minister are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to appoint a new antisemitism envoy and provide extra funding for community safety amid rising anxiety after the Bondi Beach Hanukkah shootings.
They say filling the vacant envoy post is a matter of urgency after a spike in antisemitic incidents, including multiple thefts of mezuzahs from the doorways of Toronto Jewish homes this month. A mezuzah contains a parchment inscribed with scripture.
Deborah Lyons resigned in July as Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, telling the Canadian Jewish News she was exhausted after spending nearly two years “waking up every day to a fight.”
I have long wondered what exactly Deb was fighting.
It was absurd that she demanded we protect Jews from the Muslims her employer imported and coddled.
Barb was so tone deaf she called us out for not rallying to her battle cry.
Apparently she missed how for the past decade her employer viciously slandered dissenters as Islamophobes and racists for warning of Islam’s threat to Canada
A threat aided and abetted by the very best our political class, media and universities had to offer.
Deb failed to see Antisemitism is an elite value not a Canadian value.
Maybe Barb will find time in retirement to watch CBC for some needed indoctrination.
