It's imperative for the government to safeguard the Jewish community

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Among the hundreds of Canadian leaders I have taken to visit Auschwitz, one prevailing question always emerges: “How could this happen?” The answer is quite simple, I reply: “People chose to look the other way while bad people murdered six million Jews in Europe.” 

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When synagogues were attacked, they looked away. When mezuzahs were torn from doorways, they stayed quiet. When Nazis marched down the street calling for their death, they lowered their gaze. After this steady drumbeat of antisemitic rhetoric, the violence finally erupted in Berlin.

This past weekend in Bondi, Australia, after two years of pro-Hamas demonstrations and attacks on the Jewish community, the killing started. Now people are wondering how this could have possibly happened in Australia of all places.

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Sound familiar? It should because it’s happening right now in Canada and sadly, across the world in most western democracies. Synagogues here have been torched and their windows broken. Shots have been fired at