There’s a well-known saying about leaders of countries who live in a state of fear, either due to economic pressure or to the fear of being attacked from outside their borders. Simply put, it’s said these maligned leaders don’t retreat, they attack whomever they fear. In essence, it has a two-fold effect.

One is to show their own population that they had better not revolt against their leaders, or else they will be persecuted or slaughtered, as in Iran; the second is to attack external adversaries. Combined, these two measures have a deranged, gargantuan appeal to Iran’s theocratic government, its military and those Jew-bashing, morally defunct, hate-mongering, antisemitic misfits, living amongst us, all clamouring for attention in such cities as Toronto, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and suburban Detroit, where this month synagogues and schools have been attacked.

And how do these events affect our children and youth?

Canada’s spy chief warns of increasing violent radicalization of Canadian children.

Yesterday, in Canada’s National Post, they reported that “Gen Z Canadians........

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