It’s everywhere. You see it on the street, in schools, in workplaces, in restaurants, wherever one goes, where – Jew hatred. Label it how you like – antisemitism, anti-Zionism (with or without the hyphen?), anti-Israel, whatever. It is still hating Jews. 

When I was growing up in Canada, antisemitism was, of course, there. On the High Holidays, there was a police guard at our conservative synagogue. There was a phone number to call to listen to John Beattie, founder of the Canadian Nazi Party, rant about the evil Jews and what to do with them. Ernst Zundl was a German immigrant eventually convicted and then deported for Holocaust denial. Every now and again, a synagogue would be defaced, somebody would be physically assaulted. Jewish organizations and prominent personalities........

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