Advertisement oopStory continues belowThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Subscribe $1 for 6 months Advertisement 2AdvertisementThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article contentVirtually all religions — and atheists — are represented, and share their thoughts, in this group, including Hadassah Goldberg, a retired ophthalmologist who also contributed to the creation of the petition.Article content“What’s great about CLARITy is that we all have different backgrounds but work together for the right causes,” Goldberg told me in
a phone call Thursday. “I am Jewish and I must tell you it’s gratifying to work with others who aren’t Jewish but who do all they can to ensure things are done right for all human beings.”Article contentAfter facing intimidation, discrimination, vandalism, harassment, shootings and threats in their schools, synagogues and communities since the October 7, 2023, terror attack of Israel by Hamas, many Jewish Canadians have become deeply depressed and fearful. Many, as I wrote on these pages not long ago, have left or
are planning to leave Canada in hopes of feeling safer in other countries.Article contentMohammed said you don’t have to be Jewish to comprehend the absurdity of the Alghabra appointment.Article contentBut while non-Jews are expressing their opposition to Alghabra’s appointment, Waissi said she is puzzled by a lack of indignation on the part of Jewish Canadians.Article contentArticle contentWaissi, author of a Substack and former House of Commons policy advisor, ran unsuccessfully for the Conservative party a few years ago in Ottawa’s West Nepean riding. She said
she continues to communicate with residents of the riding, many of whom are Jewish, and is concerned that they are reluctant to support CLARITy’s petition.Article content“Frankly, we’ve had more reaction from non-Jewish Canadians than the Jewish ones, and we don’t get that,” Waissi said. “We don’t understand the silence on this from some of the Jewish community. We hope they will speak up and sign the petition because this clearly isn’t fair to Canadian Jews.”Article contentWaissi said she also doesn’t understand Carney’s appointment of Cathriona
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Sounds like politics and religion doing what it always does.
Wait so the problem is an appointment? I’m lost. Like who is Alghabra and why are people mad about it? Seems like they’re pushing a petition while everyone’s already scared.
So CLARITy is mad that Carney won’t talk? I thought Carney was the one who handled COVID stuff or whatever, now it’s Israel/Hamas Canada stuff? Either way, if there’s vandalism and shootings like they say, that’s horrible, but petitions usually don’t change anything. Also Mohammed said you don’t have to be Jewish to get it… but I feel like everyone’s still just arguing slogans.
I don’t get the whole “non-Jewish Canadians are more upset than Jewish Canadians” part. Like wouldn’t it be the other way around? If Jewish people are depressed and planning to leave Canada, that seems more like a government failing than anything CLARITy can do. Also Alghabra appointment?? is this the same Alghabra that worked on transit or immigration or something? The article’s talking in circles a bit, not gonna lie.