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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: A new government-issued handbook aims to define antisemitism. Will it make a difference?
Description: Ever since Oct. 7, there has been a deluge of antisemitism propagated under the veil of anti-Zionism. Cartoons of world-dominating Jewish rats and hook-nosed devils; claims that Israel has no right to exist; calls for the death of Jews… the list goes on. These Canadian examples of real-world instances of antisemitism are just some of the many detailed in a new 56-page government handbook, published Oct. 31 by the office of Canada’s special envoy for preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism.
For Special Envoy Deborah Lyons, publishing this handbook was near the top of her to-do list after being appointed to t...