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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s expected announcement Monday on antisemitism is not simply about antisemitism. It is about pressure. 

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It is about the fact that the situation facing Canadian Jews has become so bad, so visible, and so indefensible that Ottawa can no longer manage it with sympathetic statements and carefully staged concern. It is about the growing alarm south of the border over what life has become for Jews in Canada. And it is about a government that ignored, minimized, or slow-walked this crisis for years, only to discover urgency when the political cost of inaction began to rise. 

Canadian Jews have not been quiet. They have not failed to explain what is happening. They have not failed to document the harassment, intimidation, vandalism, violence, institutional cowardice, and public abandonment that have marked Jewish life in Canada since October 7. 

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