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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Antisemitic incidents seem disproportionately high in Canada. How is this possible?
Description: When B’nai Brith released its annual antisemitism report on April 17, documenting 2,769 incidents of Jew hatred in Canada last year, we wondered why the numbers were so high. After all, the Canadian government’s own data on police-reported hate crimes against Jews accounted for a fraction of that number. In France, whose Jewish population is bigger than Canada’s, there were just 469 cases in 2022—six times lower than in Canada. And the American numbers are relatively the same as Canada’s although they have 17 times as many Jews as we do.
So The CJN Daily _asked B’nai Brith’s director of th...