Deborah Lyons said the conflict in the Middle East is affecting Canada, but need not ‘end up in our backyard’
Police stand between counter-protesters and a protest encampment in support of Palestinians at McGill University’s campus in Montreal on May 2. Canada ’s antisemitism envoy says foreign conflicts – such as the one between Israel and Hamas – need not lead to Canadians fighting with each other “in our backyard” as she warned that Jewish students are facing “a tsunami of antisemitism” on Canadian campuses.
Her remarks came as concerns were raised by a range of witnesses Thursday about the rise of antisemitism, including how Jewish students and university academics are being intimidated and harassed. Ms. Lyons, Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, said Canadians are quite capable of seeing both points of view in the Middle East conflict.
Ms. Lyons said she was “impressed” by the recommendation from the Bloc and is “very interested in exploring this as an option.” Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, senior director, policy and advocacy, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said she agreed and “every Canadian has to be subjected to the same laws and the same standards and nobody’s religion should excuse them from engaging in any kind of hate speech.”
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