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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – Where does hate come from?

KINSELLA: Mark Carney acknowledges antisemitism in Canada but fails to meet the moment Back to video

Lots of things – envy, resentment, ideology, economic distress, ignorance, indifference.

I’ve been writing about hate for 40 years, and I can tell you that indifference ranks pretty high up on the list, lately.

Mark Carney is a practitioner of indifference. He visited a Toronto synagogue last week –ostensibly to deliver a prime ministerial denunciation of the variant of hate that is antisemitism– and he couldn’t once articulate the causes of the problem, or its remedies.

He offered up some platitudes and quoted philosophers, instead. He acknowledged antisemitism in Canada, yes, but he just seemed a bit … indifferent to it all, and what to do about it. The orgy of antisemitism that has beset the country he leads doesn’t really affect him or his social circle. But he’s been hearing about it from G7 leaders over canapés during his international travels, and it’s all a bit embarrassing.

So, he made a speech. Box, checked.

Here in Israel, where I was for the Tel Aviv International Documentary Festival– promoting a film I helped put together about antisemitism’s causes and remedies– lots of people mentioned Carney’s speech to us Canadians. They, too, were unimpressed........

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