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Jesse Kline: It's simple. Islamic extremism is behind all the Jew hate

Those responsible for the antisemitic violence is clear to all — except, apparently, our own government

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Canada has an antisemitism problem, but listening to our politicians, government agencies and some in the media, it’s easy to get the impression that no one really knows where the hatred is coming from or who is committing attacks against Jews.

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In his much-discussed speech Monday at a Toronto synagogue, Prime Minister Mark Carney called out Jew-hate as a “crisis” that is testing the very “nature” of our country. He tacitly admitted that some immigrants are bringing old-world hatreds with them when he said, “When you come to Canada, you bring your faith, your tradition, your language, your story. You leave behind your wars and your animosities.”

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What he did not say is anything about Islamic extremism, the foreign-funded campaign that’s driving anti-Jewish hate or the groups, foreign and domestic, that have been organizing the hate-filled protests that have taken over Canadian streets.

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On the same day, Toronto police announced that five people — Hosaam Hemdan, Omer Turcan, Syed Hussaini, Hasan Aydin and Yasaf Shaikh — had been arrested for allegedly holding blatantly antisemitic signs at an anti-Israel rally.

A month earlier, Toronto residents described by police as “visibly identifiable members of the Jewish community” sustained minor injuries following a drive-by shooting with a “replica firearm.” The following week, people standing in front of a synagogue were targeted in a similar attack. A day after the second shooting, police arrested 18-year-old Ruslan Novruzov.

Although not much is known about Novruzov, his surname is common in Azerbaijan, a 97.3 per cent Muslim-majority country where 53 per cent of the population harbour antisemitic views, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s Global 100 index.

Yet anyone who read the CBC’s story on the arrest would not have known Novruzov’s name, because the public broadcaster chose not to publish it. And this is not the first time this has happened.

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The CBC similarly failed to mention the names of people arrested for attacks against two Jewish schools in Toronto and one in Montreal, which serves to create the impression that some amorphous blob is responsible for Canada’s antisemitism problem.

This is not the case in many other places, especially in Europe, where authorities, the media, academia and advocacy groups have historically been far less timid about identifying the sources of antisemitism.

All the way back in 2002, journalist Tove Gravdal, reporting on the rise in antisemitism in France, noted that after the start of the Second Intifada, “Young French men of Arabic origin came together over the Palestinian cause, turned French Jews into symbols of Israel and launched a wave of attacks on Jewish targets.”

In a 2017 study, researchers at the University of Oslo asked the victims of antisemitic incidents in Europe who committed the attacks and found that respondents “most often perceived the perpetrator(s) to be ‘someone with a Muslim extremist view.’ ”

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