Canada’s Jew-hatred problem

As is the case in Western Europe, mass migration explains a great deal of Canada’s new antisemitism. The policies of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau encouraged millions to come to Canada, where immigrants now comprise 23% of the population, compared to 15% in the United States. Although many of these newcomers aren’t antisemitic, many are, and some put their hatred of Jews into action.

Americans rightly spend little time thinking about Canada. Occasionally, however, our northerly neighbor deserves our attention.

In June, Dr. Emmanuel Moss, chief of cardiac surgery at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, announced that he was leaving Canada for the United States. A Canadian doing this isn’t normally newsworthy. Many upwardly-minded Canucks have taken their talents to America. Yet the thing about Dr. Moss is that he’s Jewish at a time when his people are increasingly unwelcome in the Great White North. “The rise of antisemitism in Montreal” compelled him to leave, Dr. Moss wrote in a letter explaining his decision.