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Terry Glavin: The antisemitic nightmares are not stopping

Over the past two years, Statistics Canada has counted 1,731 hate crimes targeting Jews that were reported to the police

It was three years ago, October 7, 2023, at 6:29 a.m., that the nightmare began. A bloody convulsion of barbaric mayhem roared out of Gaza. It swept through Israel’s southern kibbutzim and tore through a music festival on the holiday of Simchat Torah, the celebration that concludes the autumn festival days at the close of the month of Tishrei.

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Before nightfall, the death toll was greater than any single-day event in Jewish history since the time of the Nazi death camps. When the counting was done, at least 1,195 people were slaughtered, most of them gunned down as they ran in panic, or riddled with bullets along with their children or burned alive in their homes. Another 3,400 people were wounded, and 251 people, including the elderly, were taken into captivity.

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There was another nightmare that began that day. Within hours of the massacres, throughout the English-speaking world and beyond, there were celebrations. From Vancouver to New York, and from Los Angeles to Istanbul, the killers mobilized by Ḥarakat al-Muqawamah al-ʾIslamiyyah, otherwise known as Hamas, were praised as gallant resistance fighters. Heroes.

Columnist Jesse Kline keeps you up to date with what’s happening in Israel and the effects of antisemitism on life here in Canada. Friday mornings.

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