Canada

Canada’s second national antisemitism summit promises concrete steps to address violence and hate

“What we, what you, are experiencing is not normal. Antisemites singing the praises of Hamas and Hezbollah while waving their flags in the streets of our cities is not normal,” Trudeau told the National Forum on Combating Antisemitism, a one-day summit organized by the federal Liberals on March 6.

“The term Zionist increasingly being tossed around as a pejorative, in spite of the fact that it simply means believing in the right of Jewish people, like all people, to determine their own future, is not normal,” Trudeau continued. “No one in Canada should ever be afraid to call themselves a Zionist. I am a Zionist,” he said to applause from the audience.