Barbara Kay: Ottawa Should Support Canadian Muslim Groups That Condemn Hamas, Instead of Funding Anti-Semitic Ones

Commentary According to a January report submitted to Israel’s Knesset regarding anti-Semitism around the world since Oct. 7, anti-Semitism is up 800 percent in Canada (higher than France, Germany, and the UK). In Toronto alone, police have seen a 93 percent increase in the number of reported hate crimes since the Israel–Hamas war began, compared to the same time period a year earlier—most against Jews. Canadian Jews worry for their physical safety, of course, but they also feel an ominous sense of civic isolation. Shocked sympathy for the victims of Hamas’s atrocities lasted about 48 hours. After that, the vicious blowback—ostensibly against Israel, in reality against Jews—began, a conflagration largely led and fed by pro-Hamas Canadian Muslims....