Does The Jewish Faculty Network Represent Jewish Introspection?

"[The ACLA {Arab Canadian Lawyers Association} defines anti-Palestinian racism in part, as] failing to acknowledge Palestinians as an indigenous people with a collective identity, belonging and rights in relation to occupied and historic Palestine."

"Defaming Palestinians and their allies with slander such as being inherently antisemitic, a terrorist threat/sympathizer or opposed to democratic values."

Arab Canadian Lawyers Association 

 

"[The Jewish Faculty Network {JFN}'s] assessment of antisemitism in Canada is misleading."

"[His own research and that of the Anti-Defamation League {ADL}, found low levels of antisemitic views in Canada compared to many other countries, but that] Eight percent of Canada's population is 3.3-million people."

"Canada's Jewish population is about 410,000."

"Therefore, there are eight times more antisemites than Jews in Canada."

"The CIJA [Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs] [failed to] distinguish attitudes from behaviour [by ignoring evidence showing that antisemitic behaviour has] skyrocketed in Canada, [including his own survey, which found that in 2023] Two of 10 Canadian Jews were called offensive names because they are Jews; three of ten were made to feel unwelcome because they are Jews; and five of 10 heard someone say the Holocaust did not happen or has been exaggerated."

Robert Brym, professor emeritus, University of Toronto 

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside the fenced in area of an encampment on the University of Toronto campus in Canada on May 2, 2024. Photo by Cole Burston/AFP via Getty Images.

 

Jews are a famously argumentative lot, but it still takes many Jews themselves who support Zionism by surprise when there are other clusters of Jewish communities who are anti-Israel, and who support accusations leveled by non-Jews that a genocide is taking place in 'Palestine' through the Israeli government's and its Israel Defense Forces' campaign to eradicate the Palestinian Islamist terrorist group Hamas which has spent decades on a futile, but deadly campaign to eliminate the Jewish state from the Middle East.

 

It seems to matter far less to such groups of Jewish Israel-detractors that Jews are in the crosshairs of world opinion with a resurgence of viral antisemitism throughout the West, and that Palestinian terrorist groups such as Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Fatah and others of their ilk, along with Palestinian civilians marauded through Israel on 7 October 2023 in a sadistic savagery of shocking dimensions of rape, mutilations, mass killings and hostage-taking. Israel's response to the terrorists shielding themselves from retribution by installing themselves in the general Palestinian population and in the process searching out the terrorists, means civilians are caught in the crossfire.

 

That Hamas built a wildly complex underground labyrinth of tunnels for weapons storage and haven for its operatives, installed command centres and weapons depots along with communications centres in and beneath mosques, hospitals, schools and private homes, making it impossible when targeting the terror operatives to avoid sweeping in civilians as collateral damage through the military responses to the atrocity and barrages of rockets, is of no account to Israel's critics, among them Canada's New Democratic Party, and legacy media which publish whatever comes out of Hamas public relations to tarnish Israel.

 

The Jewish anti-Israel lobby alone is appalling in its astonishing complicity in demonizing Israel. It has helped to pressure the Liberal government in Canada toward an arms embargo for Israel, to vote at the United Nations against Israel's interests and finally to capriciously recognize a Palestinian state which has time and again refused to recognize the legitimacy of Israel's existence. That Jewish lobby has been agreeable to shutting down university campuses and city streets. Their actions portraying Israel negatively receive media attention as representative of Canadian Jews. 

 

People demonstrate against the participation of cyclists racing for Israel-Premier Tech at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec on Friday in Quebec City. (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press)

 

And they have produced a report that anchors their antagonism against Israel's existence, citing it as an academic team professionally and expertly diminishing and delegitimizing Israel's right of existence, calling themselves the Jewish Faculty Network. They do not even blush in calling Israel 'racist' and supporting a universal boycott of Israel. They claim that there is no problem of antisemitism in Canada, regardless of protests by anti-Israel groups taking place in Jewish neighbourhoods, outside synagogues, daycare centres and seniors' residences. 

 

"Labelling critics of Israel as antisemitic, as CIJA does, is a clear example of anti-Palestinian racism" claims the 'Jewish Faculty Network', right in sync with the definition by the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association. The fact is, most Canadians are not devoutly antisemitic. Those that are, and who join arms with the part of the Canadian Muslim population that are, still represent a relatively modest proportion of the Canadian population. They are adamant, they are loud, they are bold, and they are shameless in their excoriation of Israel and their concomitant threats to Canada's social contract.

 

And the government of the day, and the day before, Liberals both, who cater to the large and growing Muslim demographic as opposed to the sedate and relatively small Jewish-Canadian population, forced to protect itself by hiring private security guards at its schools and synagogues, sees nothing amiss in the wild demonstrations that target Jewish community centres and parochial schools, more attuned to favouring the ballot box than ensuring security for the smaller demographic left to fend for themselves.