This is such a tour de force of an article. It reaches into the depths of our psyches and hits the nerve that has been inflamed for 500+ days. Most of us (particularly Jews) are chameleons in most aspects of our lives. What I mean is that we have a gene that switches on or off depending on what environment we find ourselves. That gene has been working overtime since 10/7. And that has fundamentally changed the way in which we interact with our world. Canada is not the same place it was before 10/7. The moral bankruptcy that you describe is worn as a badge of honour. After 9/11 (where 24 Canadians were murdered in the Twin Towers by a jihadi death cult) our government joined a US-led coalition of countries in Operation Enduring Freedom. We flew across the globe and bombed the hell out of Al Queda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. We then effected “regime change” and occupied Afghanistan for more than ten years. What did Canada do about the 8 Canadians savagely massacred by the Hamas death cult? - nothing. So, when we wonder if there is a double standard we are not paranoid. Our intergenerational “Jew hatred” antenna are triggered. Adam, thank you for this perfect analysis of how we feel.
This is such a tour de force of an article. It reaches into the depths of our psyches and hits the nerve that has been inflamed for 500+ days. Most of us (particularly Jews) are chameleons in most aspects of our lives. What I mean is that we have a gene that switches on or off depending on what environment we find ourselves. That gene has been working overtime since 10/7. And that has fundamentally changed the way in which we interact with our world. Canada is not the same place it was before 10/7. The moral bankruptcy that you describe is worn as a badge of honour. After 9/11 (where 24 Canadians were murdered in the Twin Towers by a jihadi death cult) our government joined a US-led coalition of countries in Operation Enduring Freedom. We flew across the globe and bombed the hell out of Al Queda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. We then effected “regime change” and occupied Afghanistan for more than ten years. What did Canada do about the 8 Canadians savagely massacred by the Hamas death cult? - nothing. So, when we wonder if there is a double standard we are not paranoid. Our intergenerational “Jew hatred” antenna are triggered. Adam, thank you for this perfect analysis of how we feel.
Nailed it again Adam.
Part of it is people parroting what the news tells them which is that the Palestinians are having a terrible time.
None of this ever applied to me I guess I would have been a huge annoyance pre 10/7.
I feel the way about Fakestinians that Randy Newman feels about Short People,and I don't want none around me,and I never did.
Thank you for articulating what many of us have been trying to make sense of, with clarity and wisdom.
Go, Adam, go! Great article, as usual. AmYisraelChai!