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VUONG: Canada drew a line on anti-Asian hate, why not on anti-Jewish violence?

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11.05.2026

Even at the height of anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic, no one drove through Chinatown shooting at small businesses, community centres, or people.

And if they did, it would have been rightly and resolutely condemned by every decent and reasonable Canadian leader and citizen.

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But when it happens to the Jewish community, at a time of the highest anti-Jewish hatred in modern history, the reaction – aside from Jewish leaders and a few select allies– has been little more than a collective shrug.

In two weeks, there have been two incidents of people being shot at because they were Jewish. Most recently, on May 7, three people standing outside a synagogue were shot at with what police described as a suspected pellet gun.

These aren’t acts of mischief. They are meant to terrorize a domestic population of people – Jews – and they are only one step removed from murder.

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