It took former prime minister Stephen Harper to say what many Canadians are thinking these days about the war in the Mideast — and the response to it in Canada — that our current political leaders lack the moral courage to say.
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First, that the hate-filled demonstrations against Jews that have been going on for more than a year across Canada are in part the result of failed immigration policies that indiscriminately allowed Jew haters and others whose beliefs are antithetical to Canadian values to immigrate to our country.
“We must stop cultivating Jihadists, antisemites, Khalistanis, Tamil Tigers and other divisive groups,” Harper said last week in Toronto at a gala event organized by The Abraham Global Peace Initiative, where he was given the Defender of Israel Award, as reported by the National Post.
“When it comes to our immigration system, we are going to have to ask ourselves some hard questions about how we screen people.
“We cannot start imposing age-old hatreds onto our streets. We need to do something about this — we cannot let it continue.”
On the difference between demonstrations in Canada supporting Israel and those euphemistically described as “pro-Palestinian,” Harper said:
“Go see a pro-Israel demonstration, and then go see a pro-Hamas demonstration. The difference is that only at an Israeli demonstration will they be carrying the Canadian flag, If you see a Canadian flag at the other group, they’ll be burning it. And that’s all you need to know about why Canada should be supporting Israel — they are our friends and the other side is not. It’s that simple … If we abandon Israel on the front lines, those threats will only grow closer to us. It’s in our vital national interest to support Israel.”
Commenting on the normalization of antisemitism in Canada ever since Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Harper warned, “This has gone way too far … We’ve got to clean this up,” accusing many university academics and media of contributing to the explosion of Jew hatred across Canada by failing to condemn it.
The tragedy is that it took a former Conservative prime minister to state unequivocally all the things our current Liberal prime minister and other like-minded politicians have failed to say for more than a year.