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Doorstep Postings: Keeping track of double standards in a system struggling to grapple with antisemitism in Canada

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31.05.2024


This is a special edition of Doorstep Postings, the periodic political commentary column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN.

In case you’re just joining us, a coalition of pretend revolutionaries have spent the past eight months trying to gaslight all of humanity into believing that Israel is on its way out.

Unfortunately for them, when you believe yourself to be morally infallible, you lose that important bit of self-reflection that keeps you from doing obviously hypocritical and inconsistent things.

Because they cannot accept that Jews will not simply acquiesce (being Jews and all), they opt for quantity over quality, trying to overwhelm with multiple cope-ridden faulty logic bombs at once instead of sticking to one that might work.

Every one of them is fodder for a column, but here instead are 10 for the price of one, all from the waning days of May 2024:

Trudeau and Chow have no idea how to react when Ford goes on his rant about “immigrants terrorizing neighbourhoods” pic.twitter.com/tbMtzXvOdw

1. When a notoriously incompetent Premier Doug Ford implies that immigrants are importing prejudices into Ontario, the nation’s thought leaders mobilize to force him to not-apologize mere hours later. On the other hand, when someone who wasn’t born here actually crosses the line, such as when a masked protester praises Hitler at the University of Toronto encampment, we have to take it as a given that this person was ostracized and called out. Yet don’t get the masked protester’s name, or any insight into what consequences they may have faced.

This is the University of Toronto encampment.

"Heil H*tler. Heil H*tler n*****. Heil H*tler. He's a G. He's a gangster. I wish he had (inaudible) all you guys bro. The world would have been a better place. If you........

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