You know you’re probably not doing your best as a leader to stem an ever-growing wave of hate in your country when another leader has to personally phone you up to tell you so. That’s what happened Thursday after a repeated attack on Beth Tikvah synagogue in Montreal. That’s the message that was delivered. 

No doubt frustrated and exasperated to be watching the relentless attacks on synagogues and intimidation in Canadian Jewish neighbourhoods from afar, the President of the State of Israel, Isaac Herzog, took to social media platform X on Thursday to let everyone know about the conversation he had with our often mealy-mouthed-in-the-face-of-antisemitism Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.