The West ignored the threat of radical Islam — now Jews are paying the price
Comments by Berlin’s chief of police show that it’s not safe to be openly Jewish in one of Europe’s largest cities — in 2024
Hide your kippahs and hide your rainbows, Germans. Berlin’s chief of police, Barbara Slowik, recently suggested that Jews and gay people should avoid — or hide their identities in — the city’s majority Arab neighbourhoods. It’s simply not safe to be openly Jewish or homosexual in one of Europe’s largest cities. In 2024. Germany is coming undone.
Canada is not faring much better.
In Germany: young Jewish soccer players were hunted down by a gang of knife-wielding Arab youth. In Canada: firebomb attacks on synagogues. In Germany: Jews warned by public officials that entire neighbourhoods are full of immigrants who “harbour sympathies for terrorists.” In Canada: designated terror group Samidoun shouts “Long live October 7!” and “Death to Canada!” on our streets. These are but a few examples.
Jewish students at the University of British Columbia (UBC) this past summer hung posters throughout campus that read: “I am a Jew. I hide my identity because I feel threatened and unsafe,” and “Stop terrorizing Jews.” No police chief instructed them to hide; Jewish students could detect the tenor — and a mounting risk of violence — on campus.
Like Germany, Canada has adopted a policy of unfettered and incautious immigration, and with it have come some immigrants who are antagonistic toward western values. We stopped caring if our immigrants wanted to blend into our society — rather than upend its virtues entirely. It must also be noted that swathes of our own political left, and others born in Canada, hold a similar disdain for western values.
We have been so open and welcoming that we’ve changed the very nature of our society. We’ve changed on a molecular level. We are unrecognizable. That which makes the West an enticing place to live — our openness, tolerance and freedoms — has the power to destroy us, if left unchecked or undervalued. Our national goodwill must not include a tolerance of intolerance.
Among the victims of Canada’s failed immigration policy are those who came to Canada seeking an open, pluralistic society in which their families could thrive and integrate. These immigrants unfairly bear the brunt of a changing national sentiment that can include disdain or open hostility towards any and all “foreigners.” We are a country of immigrants–that, in and of itself, is not the issue.
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