Celebrations of Jewish life that have nothing to do with Israel are being disrupted as the nation stands idly by

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My name is Harley Finkelstein. I am a proud Jewish-Canadian, an entrepreneur and the grandson of Holocaust survivors.

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I am also the son of immigrants who came to Canada more than half a century ago after fleeing Hungary following the 1956 revolution. They came here to escape persecution. They came because Canada promised safety, opportunity and the freedom to live openly.

For most of my life, I believed deeply in that promise. Over the last few years, something has changed.

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I have not spoken publicly about this before, not because it felt unimportant, but because I did not want to........

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