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Chris Selley: Charges are being dropped against Canadian anti-Israel thuggery at an astonishing rate

The vast majority of protest-related criminal charges are dropped, stayed or otherwise given up on

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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s statement on Saturday, in response to yet more gunfire aimed at Canadian synagogues — this time in Toronto and Thornhill, just north of the city — was notable for one reason: It did not aver that “there is no place in Canada” for what had happened, or use any similar verbiage. It was a tiny mercy in a very unnerving time. At this point, the phrase has transcended cliché and entered the realm of the offensively meaningless. Yet somehow politicians’ communication advisers still keep churning it out.

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“Antisemitism has no place in our province,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared in response to the most recent attacks. “Hate has no place in Canada,” interim federal NDP leader Don Davies chipped in. “Cowardly acts of antisemitism, violence and hate will never be normalized or accepted in Ontario,” said Ontario Solicitor General Michael Kerzner, who knows very well how normal such things have become.

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