Dan Mader 🇨🇦

Founding Partner, Loyalist Public Affairs. Conservative activist. I stand with 🇮🇱 and 🇺🇦.

[Dan Mader 🇨🇦 @danjmader]

DEI was never about inclusion. It was only ever about power.

[Dan Mader 🇨🇦 @danjmader]

We built up an entire bureaucracy of DEI departments investigating microaggressions and punishing anyone who made someone feel offended or "unsafe", and it was all forgotten when the hate was targeted at Jews. Hard not to conclude that it was all a lie.

[Alan Fryer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @alanfryermedia]

“What has been most troubling is not only the rise in hateful acts, but the normalization of rhetoric and behaviour that would have been broadly condemned only a few years ago. When a community starts to feel unsafe in a city it has helped build, something has gone seriously wrong.”

[Dan Mader 🇨🇦 @danjmader]

This from the Globe is very good

[Patrick Brethour @PatrickBrethour]

Globe editorial: The missing words in Mark Carney's speech
https://t.co/kRIFkteK0A

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

If you can't even call out the problem, you ain't fixing it. The problem in Canadian is antizionism. An obsessive, violent annilationist hate movement worse than any we've ever seen.

[The International Legal Forum - ILF @The_ILF]

Prime Minister @MarkJCarney’s speech yesterday addressing the “scourge of antisemitism” plaguing Canada included many pertinent points.

The problem is that it largely avoided fundamental issues: why antisemitism has surged, how it has mutated, who is fueling it, and what concrete actions will be taken to confront it.

The Prime Minister stood in one of Canada’s largest synagogues and admitted that “Canada’s civic compact is failing Jewish Canadians” and that “if that covenant fails for one of our communities, it fails us all.”

He highlighted the important role that the @TheIHRA definition plays in identifying and addressing antisemitism - for if you can’t define it, you can’t combat it.

While the Prime Minister may have hit some of the right notes, he ultimately failed to deliver where Canadians needed leadership most - to name and shame those fuelling and peddling antisemitism in Canada’s streets.

There is no need for a Council to investigate this - five years of overt antisemitism, with the past two and a half featuring incessant hate rallies, shootings, and violence targeting Canada’s Jewish community and anyone who supports the Jewish nation state has made the perpetrators of anti-Jewish hatred known to all who wish see.

Not once did the Prime Minister mention liberal values that have been hijacked, redefined, inverted, and weaponized to normalize ever-mutating lethal antisemitism. Not once did he refer to Islamic extremism and its role in the antisemitism crisis across Canada. He failed to mention the progressives who boast about diversity, equity, and inclusion yet keep Jews out of their spaces.

He touted his own policies and praised police, instead of calling for the most basic laws to be upheld, and for perpetrators of crimes to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And he did not commit to utilizing his own government’s IHRA Handbook.

He failed to look inwards, and consider the role his own government is playing in funding organizations guilty of peddling antisemitism, including terror-affiliated entities. While talking about “not importing foreign conflicts,” he failed to recognize the affect his government’s obsessive anti-Israel policies have on the Jewish community in Canada - from claiming Israel has a right to self defense even while cutting export permits for military equipment, to rewarding Palestinian leadership with recognition of a state in the wake of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust without requiring any reform.

Significant and troubling concerns have already emerged regarding the identities and backgrounds of several named members of the Council - one of the Prime Minister's flagship proposals.

Most poignantly, while standing in a synagogue speaking about the 3,000 year old history of the Jewish people, he failed to mention the Jewish people’s millennia-old connection to the land of Israel, effectively attempting to erase Israel from Canadian Jewish identity.

By missing these points, the PM’s statement will serve to continue the normalization of antisemitism. As Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z”l warned: “Antisemitism is a virus that mutates so that new antisemites can deny that they’re antisemites at all because their hate is different from the old. In the Middle Ages, Jews were hated for their religion. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century they were hated for their race. Today they are hated for their nation state, Israel. What all three have in common is that they are different ways of saying that Jews have no right to exist collectively as Jews with the same rights of other human beings… Anti-Zionism, denying Jews the right to their one and only collective home by misrepresenting Judaism, is the new antisemitism.”

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

UNRWA should be funded based on the number of refugees it has resettled since 1949.

That number is 0.

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

'We weren't hanging JEWS in effigy, we were hanging a specific Jew in effigy!'

It was always specific Jews.

The Germans hanged Albert Einstein in effigy, the Rothschilds, Magnus Hirschfeld and Walther Rathenau (before they murdered him for real).

Antizionists do Nazi stuff.

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

The same @nenshi but does exactly the same supporting the Khalistan , Tamil Eelam separatist movement calling it freedom of speech . One set of rules for Canadian separatists and another set for foreign separatists operating in canada ?

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

The UK government just released a statement slamming Israel for simply building homes.

Meanwhile, they haven’t said a word about Afghanistan legalizing the selling of 9 year old girls to be sex slaves.

Weird.

[Since Leafs Last Cup @LeafsIastCup]

21,571 days since a Cup.

2,282 days since losing to an AHL Zamboni driver.

370 days since playing a playoff game.

0 days since playoff points leader @Marner93 went up 2-0 in a conference final.

#LeafsForever

[Casey Babb @DrCaseyBabb]

We talk a lot about fighting antisemitism and antizionism – and rightfully so. Both are real, and both are dangerous.

But here's what I think we're missing: the fight against something is never enough on its own. If all we do is push back, we'll lose the battle. Perhaps more importantly, I believe, we’ll lose touch with ourselves – with who we are.

We need to spend equal time and energy embracing Zionism — understanding it, celebrating it, and making the case for it with confidence.

Zionism is one of the most remarkable stories in human history: a people who never stopped loving a land, who kept its language alive for thousands of years, who prayed toward it daily, and who, against every conceivable odd — came home. That's not colonialism, or apartheid, or genocide. That's the greatest story of hope, belonging, and return ever told.

If we only fight antizionism, we'll be playing defense forever.

Know what you stand for. Embrace it. Say it out loud.

That's how we preserve ourselves. It’s how we win.

[My screen is red @tradeoilstocks]

“Give them a massive amount of oil, agricultural land, copper, freshwater, and every natural resource in the world. Now make them neighbors with the biggest market in the world. Great, now have them leave the resources in the ground and instead flip condos to each other”.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Palestinianism is the inversion of history where failing at genocide gets treated as a tragedy.

Think about how deranged that is. To spend 78 years claiming it was a “disaster” that they didn’t successfully commit genocide.

It’d be like the Germans having a “Nakba” day.

[Alexander Zoltan @AmazingZoltan]

Call me old fashioned, but I've always associated freedom and democracy with people being able to say things and vote on stuff.

[B'nai Brith Canada @bnaibrithcanada]

The City of Vancouver Integrity Commissioner has sent a chilling message. Call out antisemitic rhetoric and you may be punished, while the conduct itself escapes accountability.

Mayor @KenSimCity bravely called out Councillor Sean Orr’s antisemitic social media posts and his participation in a protest connected to Al-Awda, a group associated with Samidoun, a listed terrorist entity.

For that, Mayor Sim was found to have violated the Code of Conduct.

Yet B’nai Brith Canada’s complaint about Councillor Orr’s own reprehensible conduct was dismissed.

That is an outrageous double standard.

At a time of surging antisemitism, public officials should be expected to confront hate, not penalized for naming it. Councillor Orr has still not been held accountable.

B’nai Brith Canada stands with Mayor Sim and thanks him for his leadership, moral clarity and continued support for Vancouver’s Jewish community.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

I am once again telling you, young conservatives, that if you turned against Israel in the last couple of years, you are the victim of an Islamo-Leftist psyop and the sociopathic grifting of influencers who don't care about you or anything but their grift. Useful idiots, all.

[Dan Mader 🇨🇦 @danjmader]

Exactly. When politicians like Tlaib commemorate the "Nakba," they are expressing their disappointment that the Arab armies' genocidal campaign to ethnically cleanse jews from the Middle East failed.

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

How is Lebanon part of Palestinian nonsense?
Nakba is a scam, depicted as an event when Palestinians were displaced en masse. This is anachronism. Palestinians left believing they'd come back once Arab armies invaded Israel and finished it off. The Arab armies invaded, but lost. The military loss, not the displacement, the Arabs called Nakba. It took decades before Palestinians started commemorating Nakba, mainly as the counter narrative of Israeli Independence.

[Laura Rosen Cohen 🪬 🐿️ 🚚 @LauraRosenCohen]

"After all, if you allow people to watch Jews sing, who knows—it could lead to mixed dancing. Before you know it, impressionable children may be using offensive language, like “Israeli couscous.”

"And so, no singing. No dancing. No watching, singing, or dancing. It’s like Footloose with keffiyehs."

This is your must read of the day from one of the best Jewish writers of our age, @SethAMandel

https://t.co/QLZOHApqo2

[Oren Barsky @orenbarsky]

It’s the same pattern every single time:

They accuse the Jews of exactly what they tried to do themselves.

They attempted genocide — then accuse the Jews of genocide.
They carried out rape and organized sexual violence against Israeli civilians — then accuse Israel of systematic rape.

They pour billions into academia, the media, and social platforms — then accuse Israel of buying influence.

They refuse to let Jews in — then accuse Israel of apartheid.

Look at every issue one by one, and you’ll see the exact same pattern repeated over and over again.

Every accusation is a confession.

[Emily Zanotti 🦝 @emzanotti]

This map is incredible.