Since Hamas’ grotesque attack against the nation of Israel and the Jewish people on October 7th, Canada has become rife with antisemitism. Unfortunately, the Jew-hatred that has defaced Canadian society is not a mere consequence of the Israel-Palestine Conflict and its most recent outbreak.

Rather, Canada has been engulfed by antisemitism and Jew-hatred throughout the modern era, due to the fact that, for nearly a decade, the Liberal government’s inadequate migration policy and summary inability to secure Canada’s borders has permitted radical Islamic ideology and fundamentalism to flow freely into Canada.

In fact, it is clear that, until Prime Minister Carney and the Liberal government begin to earnestly secure Canada’s borders and prevent the influx of Islamic fundamentalism within Canada, antisemitic violence and Jew-hatred will continue to inundate Canadian society and abuse the fundamental human rights of Canada’s Jews.

Firstly, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) itself has confirmed that, since 2015, radical Islamic ideology and extremism have become commonplace in Canada as a result of the Canadian state’s porous borders. In fact, a prominent Islamic school in Canada, the East End Madrassah, was recently forced to issue a public apology after it was exposed for “teaching children that treacherous Jews conspired to kill the Islamic Prophet Mohammed.”

Furthermore, since 2015, Islamic terrorism has become increasingly prevalent in Canada, and “nearly a dozen terrorism-related incidents [have occurred] in Canada or abroad involving Canadians” since October 7th 2023 alone. Countless terrorist leaders and people with intimate connections to terrorist organizations, such as Samidoun and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), have been permitted to migrate within the Canadian state and promote their own hellish ideology over the past decade.

For example, in 2024, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a longtime resident of Canada, attempted to carry out a mass shooting in support of ISIS in New York City, and Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the ISIS terrorist who committed the horrific ‘Bourbon Street Attack’ in New Orleans, was also previously permitted to travel freely between Canada and the U.S.. Even Justin Trudeau, Canada’s previous Prime Minister, was recently forced to admit that “bad actors … have been exploiting [Canada’s] immigration system for their own interests.”

The result is that antisemitic hate-crime has become prolific in Canada over the past decade and has skyrocketed by 670 percent since 2023. Furthermore, violent antisemitic hate-crime increased by 208 percent from 2022 to 2023, and 80 percent of Jews in Canada are now “concerned about antisemitism in their communities.” In addition, throughout 2024, Canadian society was forced to endure a record 6,219 antisemitic incidents, or 17 outpourings of Jew-hatred per day.

In truth, since 2023, Canada’s Liberal government has permitted Islamist extremists and radicals to prey upon Canada’s Jewish community with impunity.

Toronto’s Jewish community, for instance, has been invaded over 300 times by violent mobs of extremists and anti-Israeli bigots. Furthermore, for over a year and a half, radical Islamic clerics and their adherents have invaded Jewish communities in Montreal and clamored for a total genocide of the Jewish people, while swarms of extremists have freely attacked innocent Jews throughout the city.

Moreover, gunshots have been fired into multiple Jewish schools and numerous prominent synagogues and schools across Canada have been firebombed. In addition, countless innocent Jewish people, men, women, and children alike, have been viciously attacked, and over 100 Jewish organizations, institutes, and communities across Canada were targeted with a bomb threat, which explicitly stated “you will all end up in a pool of blood … This will be your last day on earth.”

Islamic Extremism Migrates

Unfortunately, although antisemitism has become endemic in Canada, it is evident that the Jew-hatred is not a mere consequence of the Israel-Palestine Conflict and its most recent outbreak.

Rather, Canada has been disfigured by antisemitism throughout the modern era due to the Liberal government’s inadequate migration policy and consistent inability to secure Canada’s borders, allowing Islamic ideology and fundamentalism to flow freely into Canada.

Until the Liberal government begins to earnestly secure Canada’s borders, antisemitic violence and Jew-hatred will continue to menace Canadian society.

More importantly, it is readily apparent that the Canadian people must begin to confront the uncomfortable reality that, despite their own earnest desire to champion the liberal ideal and embrace a plurality of people within Canadian society, it is impossible for radical Islamic ideology and fundamentalism to exist peaceably within any state that is a home to Jewish people.

In truth, any democratic nation that embraces Islamic fundamentalism within its society inevitably courts its own collapse.

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William Barclay is an award-winning political theorist, as well as a policy expert and private consultant. William’s work has been published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Palgrave-Macmillan, The Hill Times, The American Spectator, and the Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, among others. Follow him on Twitter/X @WillBarclayBBC.