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Chris Selley: Avi Lewis embraces collective guilt for Jews, but never for Muslims

Remember when we were admonished after 9/11 to avoid 'blaming all Muslims'?

“For Jewish people, the personal has always been political and the political always personal. This year I’m reflecting on the fact that we failed to do our part to stop an ongoing genocide committed in our name,” federal NDP leader Avi Lewis wrote, calamitously, on the occasion of Yom Kippur.

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Pithy counterpoint, courtesy of Liberal MP Anthony Housefather: “Holding Canadian Jews and Jews across the world collectively responsible for events over which they have no control is despicable,” he wrote. That’s about the size of........

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