Robert Brym: Avi Lewis and Independent Jewish Voices are gaslighting Canadians about antisemitism

Contrary to what they say, anti-Jewish hate crimes are a major problem and most Canadian Jews support Israel

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Is antisemitism a trivial problem in Canada? Are the protests that many Jews decry as antisemitic really just anti-Zionist? Are nearly half of Canada’s Jews non-Zionists? According to Avi Lewis, who’s running for the leadership of the NDP, and Corey Balsam, national co-ordinator of Independent Jewish Voices, an anti-Zionist group, the answer to all these questions is “yes.” They are wrong.

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In 2025, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in the United States conducted a survey of more than 100 countries to discover the percentage of antisemites (people who “harbour elevated levels of antisemitic attitudes”) residing in each country.

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