RE’IM, ISRAEL – When you come to this quiet place – where the death cult called Hamas raped, mutilated, beheaded, burnt, slaughtered, and shot 364 young people on the morning of Oct. 7, 2023 – some Canadian visitors inevitably ask themselves: Where is my country?

Because, make no mistake, Canada’s leadership hasn’t been much in evidence around the site of the former Nova Music Festival. Or at any of the other sad places in Israel, really, where 1,200 men, women, children and babies were murdered by Hamas and Gazans on that terrible day.

Did you know that every major world leader has been here to pay their respects, but not Canada’s? It’s true. Joe Biden, then-president of the United States, visited ten days after the pogrom. The top leaders of France, Greece, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, the European Union all have come to Israel to pay their respects and bear witness.

But not Canada.

Within Canada, meanwhile, something just as bad has happened – we have become one of the worst places in the world for antisemitism.

It’s been noted, and reported on, in Israel, too.

The schools for little Canadian Jewish kids sprayed with bullets. The Canadian synagogues firebombed. The Canadian businesses owned by Jews firebombed and shot up. Just because they are places frequented by Canadian citizens who happen to be Jewish.

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