Antisemitism Has Infected Left-Wing Politics in Canada

Throughout the modern era, left-wing politicians and political parties have often declared themselves to be champions of diversity and protectors of all oppressed peoples.

Unfortunately, in the time that has elapsed since Hamas’ horrific attacks against the state of Israel on October 7^th 2023, it has become readily apparent that Canada’s left-wing political parties and politicians are absolutely unconcerned with the plight of the Jewish people and indifferent to any suffering that Jews are forced to endure.

In fact, it is clear that, throughout the modern era, antisemitism has become endemic within all of Canada’s left-wing political parties.

Firstly, the Green Party of Canada has become rife with antisemitism.

For example, throughout her tenure, Elizabeth May, the Green party’s longtime Leader, has consistently courted countless avowed antisemites, such as the convicted Holocaust denier, Monika Schaefer, and the Green Party itself has frequently endorsed the inherently antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement via a variety of internal motions, legislation, and public statements.

In addition, Annamie Paul, the former Leader of the Green Party, as well as Paul Estrin, the Green Party’s former President, were both forced to quit the Green Party of Canada altogether, specifically because Jew-hatred and antisemitism have become so commonplace within the Green Party and its ranks. In fact, Estrin has publicly condemned the antisemitism that currently inhabits the Green party and has explicitly labelled the Green Party as “…the anti-Semitic wolves washed in green.”

Moreover, antisemitism has penetrated relentlessly throughout the New Democratic Party of Canada (NDP).

For instance, the NDP has, for years, tacitly endorsed the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, and, in 2021, the NDP officially adopted various aspects of the BDS platform. Furthermore, the NDP recently tabled a blatantly antisemitic motion in Canada’s House of Commons that not only utterly dismissed the Jewish people’s historic, indigenous, connection to the Land of Israel and trivialized Israel’s ‘right to exist’, but also baselessly indicted the state of Israel for genocide, apartheid, and the sum total of all Palestinian suffering.

Incredibly, the leader of the NDP himself, Jagmeet Singh, has actually openly declared that “…Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories is at the centre of the challenges facing the Palestinian and Israeli people,” and that “…by failing to call out Israel for breaching international law and violating the human rights of the Palestinian people, Canada is contributing to the problem.”

Finally, antisemitism has become rampant within the Liberal Party of Canada.

For example, in March, the Trudeau government ratified a discriminatory motion in Canada’s House of Commons that baselessly implicated the state of Israel in the genocide of the Palestinian people and falsely indicted the state of Israel for the “…continuous suffering of all Palestinian civilians.” In fact, although the emphatically biased motion pointedly indicted the state of Israel at various junctures, the motion failed to at all call upon Hamas to cease its perennial slaughter of Jewish civilians and its torture of innocent Jewish women, men, and children alike

Furthermore, the Trudeau government has shamelessly continued to aid and abet various organizations that openly participate in the terrorization of the Jewish community. For instance, the Trudeau government has continued to fund and support the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), despite the fact that UN Watch has categorically exposed UNRWA as an enthusiastic vector for antisemitic terrorism and complicit in the October 7^th massacre in Israel.

In addition, although the Trudeau government has refused to at all reasonably forestall its funding to UNRWA, the Trudeau government has happily halted all non-lethal military exports to Israel since early January. In fact, the Trudeau government recently revoked the charitable status of two historic Jewish charities, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and the Ne’eman Foundation, and, thereby, explicitly confirmed various longstanding rumours in the charitable sector that the “…[Trudeau] government [is] on a campaign to kill off pro-Israel and pro-Jewish charities.”

Sadly, despite the fact that Canada’s left-wing political parties and their leaders have often masqueraded as steadfast champions of diversity, multiculturalism, and all oppressed peoples, it is clear that left-wing political society in Canada is absolutely unconcerned with the plight of the Jewish people and that antisemitism has become endemic within all of Canada’s left-wing political parties.

In fact, although the Canadian nation has long been hailed as an exemplar of multiculturalism and diversity, it is clear that the modern advent of identity politics in Canada has rendered antisemitism not merely an essential aspect of membership within Canada’s left-wing political parties, but increasingly acceptable within mainstream Canadian society.

Verily, countless political actors and organizations in Canada, such as Jenica Atwin and Amnesty International, have actually explicitly denied the terrorism that has been meted out against the Jewish people and the state of Israel, as well as the outbreak of antisemitism that has engulfed the international political system post-October 7^th, simply because the Jewish community does not satisfy their own requisite ‘diversity criteria’.

Therefore, Canada’s Jewish community must now, unfortunately, begin to confront the macabre reality that, although Canadian society currently houses countless Jews, post-October 7^th, no Jew is at home or safe in Canada.