We must strive to create a national identity

This week in North America, we celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day. For those of us who grew up in the “old world” following the Second World War, the establishment of human rights norms based on foundational Judeo-Christian principles in the West of freedom, civil rights, and democracy—the values that MLK espoused—seems like a distant memory.

The moral compass established following the Holocaust and with respect to the civil rights movement, which was enthusiastically supported by the Jewish community standing with MLK, is being decimated by educators, demonstrators, and even political leaders attempting to establish a new world order, flipping the West’s foundational principles on their head.

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Our own Director of Education at The Abraham Global Peace Initiative, Dr. Neil Orlowsky, working within the educational institutional framework, expressed, “We are not dealing with rational people. We are dealing with woke, entitled youth who are blind to their own antisemitism.”

The truth is also that our situation is far worse than spoiled youth who are being mistaught in schools and allowed to march out of class in support of Hamas. It’s time for the grown-ups in our communities to take back our cities that are being hijacked by people bringing hate into our communities. In this, I am thrilled and respect Toronto Police for stepping up to protect the Jewish community.

This might sound old-fashioned, but it........

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