Attacks against Muslims occur, and Jews remain, by a wide margin, the most targeted religious group in Canada

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Unapologetically Jewish welcomes and applauds the Liberal government’s decision to scrap the separate antisemitism and Islamophobia envoy roles and replace them with a single Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion. It is a smart and overdue reset, and one we have been advocating for and lobbying around since the election.

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This decision should not be mischaracterized. It is not a denial of reality. Islamophobia is real. Antisemitism is real. Attacks against Muslims occur, and Jews remain, by a wide margin, the most targeted religious group in Canada. Those facts are not in dispute.

The real question has always been whether siloed, politically appointed envoys were the right mechanism to confront hate in a pluralistic democracy. The answer, increasingly clear over the past two years, is no.

Creating parallel czars with overlapping but ideologically charged mandates........

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