Exactly 100 days after Hamas attacked Israel in October 2023, I was asked to speak at a rally at Toronto’s City Hall to call for the release of the Israeli hostages still held by Hamas. I appeared before a crowd of a couple hundred people, tops. My colleague Brian Lilley was there, too, covering the event.

It was bitterly cold, so Brian and I headed a few blocks east towards Yonge St. to warm up. Almost immediately we could hear lots of chants and noise. The clamour was coming from a crowd of variously anti-Israel, anti-West, antisemitic, pro-Hamas protesters heading south on Yonge, paralyzing Toronto’s main street.

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There were thousands upon thousands of them. They had taken over the centre of Toronto. The police didn’t seem to be doing anything. Palestinian flags and antisemitic signage as far as the eye could see.

In the intervening years, that same thing has been observed over and over again in the streets and on computer and TV screens — the mainly Jewish, pro-Israel side, sometimes showing up in puny numbers. And, on the other side, 100 times as many people, organized and organizing against Jews and the Jewish state. With seemingly bottomless resources, with tested messages, with military precision.

There are exceptions, of course. There........

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