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Letters: Shut down the hate before it's too late

Readers speak out on shocking Toronto-area synagogue shootings, MPs' 'obscene' pay raises, 'outrageous' behaviour at the CBC, and much more

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‘Toronto could be moments away from a Bondi Beach’

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Re: Jewish leaders demand swift and ‘united’ action after Toronto synagogue shootings — Kenn Oliver, March 8; ‘Bullets are flying’: Two more Toronto-area synagogues hit by gunfire — Stewart Lewis, March 7; Liberals promise $10 million to fortify Jewish spaces after three synagogues shot at — Christopher Nardi, March 11

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The recent synagogue shootings should not have been a surprise to anyone — they are but another rung on the ladder in rising violence against Jews.

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A Canadian-based website continues hunting Canadian Jews who have served with the Israeli military, despite my lobbying all government levels for its removal. Protests featuring violent anti-Jewish slogans proceed unchallenged. On an Air Canada flight, I was served by a flight attendant wearing a “river to the sea” symbol, which essentially calls for the elimination of Israel.

These incidents reveal how normalized antisemitism has become in Canada. Each act grows bolder as the Jew is demonized, an unsettling reminder of a time past in 1930s’ Germany.

Toronto could be moments away from a Bondi Beach-style event — where two Muslim gunmen, father and son, killed a total of 15 people including 11 men, three women and a 10-year-old girl in an ISIS-inspired attack in Sydney, Australia. Should that happen here, the blood will stain the hands of Prime Minister Mark Carney, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow — politicians who possess the power to halt this incitement to hatred.

Our Jewish community needs more than sympathy. We need leaders with the courage to shut down hate before lives are lost.

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