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Parents dress up their children in camouflage, keffiyehs and green headbands, similar to those worn by Hamas terrorists, and parade them proudly around downtown Montreal. A larger community of parents, as many as 300 of them, band together in Toronto to walk a 13-year-old Jewish boy to school after he’s received death threats and had rocks thrown his way.
While there’s a correlation between these events, there’s also a bottom line: Jewish and Muslim children alike are being harmed by burgeoning antisemitism in Canada.
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Dressing a child in a costume resembling the uniforms worn by terrorists is indoctrination and child abuse. It is glorifying the same Hamas terrorists who use children as human shields in Gaza — the same terrorists who kidnapped baby Kfir and little Ariel Bibas in Israel on October 7.
The sad irony is that while parents, teachers, teachers’ unions and school boards encourage our children to celebrate tolerance and diversity, it’s these same people who are fostering Jew-hate — in the name of diversity. Jews apparently aren’t a part of their diversity; our meagre population is seen as a threat to it. And so we become a target.
How does an innocent young boy suddenly become a mark to classmates? How did the children throwing rocks at him learn that he was their target? How do they learn that throwing rocks at another human being is acceptable?
The children threaten the Jewish boy, saying they will do to him “what Hamas did to Israel.” It speaks entirely to indoctrination, not education.
This terrorized kid in Toronto is not part of the Israeli war cabinet; he’s not in the Knesset. He’s a little boy who happens to be Jewish. Who’s teaching his fellow students to hate him?
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Two days before this incident, a mob of teens in once-sleepy Oakville, Ont., who were attending a protest in front of city hall, chanted, “There is only one solution.”
And it’s only getting worse. Rather than condemning this new violence against children — and violence by children — Canadian society seems to be celebrating it. And no one has the guts to speak out against the Hamas terrorist organization for the suffering it has caused so many Palestinian children. Who speaks for them?
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When Prince Harry wore a Nazi costume for Halloween years back, the world was aghast. And rightly so. But now we see toddlers and children dressed in the garb worn by Hamas terrorists, and that’s OK?
What happens when that 13-year-old Jewish boy doesn’t have a community of 300 to protect him on the way to and home from school? Simply being a Jewish child is now a safety risk in Canada.
Imagine if 300 Muslim parents had to accompany a little Muslim boy to school. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would condemn the nation — and redouble his efforts to combat Islamophobia. But instead of comfort and compassion from a prime minister, in a perilous time, Canadian Jews do not feel his support.
Free children from indoctrination and child abuse. Free Jewish children from hatred. And free Canada from irresponsible leaders.
National Post
Dahlia Kurtz is a writer, speaker and radio talk show host in Canada. Her latest book, Dear Zionist, You are not alone: 18 Letters of Hope and Light, is available at DahliaKurtz.com and on Amazon.
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