Amira Elghawaby: As a Canadian Muslim, I know how hurtful and unfair it can feel to be seen as ‘the Other’
Tovey was a boy in my first grade class. I remember him distinctly because he was the first person I ever identified as being Jewish, or as my father would say in Arabic, “yahudi.”
And when a Jewish family moved next door to us when I was older, I would happily go for walks with the young mother, both of us pushing our toddlers in strollers, feeling nothing but kinship and mutual respect.Sadly, such teachings and experiences are not as widespread as they should be. Instead, Jewish communities are once again on edge as a spate of attacks in New York City, and across the pond, in London, England, have rattled many to their core.
It has become far too easy for those who promote hate to find a platform. As comedian Sacha Baron Cohen said in a speech to the Anti-Defamation League last November, Facebook may be the greatest propaganda machine of all time. Groups boasting of tens of thousands of members share all forms of hateful, false content on a daily basis, whipping up anger towards minority communities around the globe.
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