This is how modern witch hunts function. Not through trials, but through repetition. Not through convictions, but through implication

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Canada once prided itself on something increasingly rare: a legal culture anchored in restraint. We believed accusations required evidence. That guilt was individual, not collective. That law was not a weapon wielded by whoever shouted loudest, but a shield applied evenly, regardless of politics or identity. That tradition is now under threat.

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This week, Israeli comedian Guy Hochman was held for nearly six hours by Canadian authorities at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport before being released and permitted to continue his trip. Hochman went on to perform his scheduled show that evening at the Prosserman Jewish Community Centre, located within one of the city’s largest Jewish campuses in North York, as part of his North American stand up tour.

No charges were laid. No arrest was made. No finding of inadmissibility occurred.

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Yet the incident was publicly framed........

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