Marc Flisfeder (he/him)

Father, husband, litigation lawyer focusing on Health Law, part-time punk. Opinions are my own.

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

Synagogues are firebombed so often in Canada, it's easy to glaze over the details. But let's slow down a moment.

Last week in Montreal, the shul that was hit:

•Has a pro-peace, pro-Palestine, LGBTQ+ Rabbi

•Hosted a Muslim Awareness Shabbat to memorialize QC mosque shooting

[CP24 @CP24]

#BREAKING: Window smashed overnight at Toronto synagogue, police investigating
https://t.co/pkYlty064d

[Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum 🇨🇦⚾️ @CDNBaseballHOF]

May is Canadian Jewish Heritage Month! In recognition, we want to highlight Goody Rosen, one of just two Jewish baseball players born in Canada to play in the Major Leagues (along with Adam Stern).
Rosen's baseball career began shagging fly balls at Maple Leaf Stadium in Toronto as a child. He went on to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants throughout the 1930s and '40s. The talented outfielder had his best season in 1945 when he registered in the top 10 in several offensive categories. Goody Rosen was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984.
#canadianjewishheritagemonth #baseballhistory #canadianbaseball @GCMapleLeafs_BB @JewishBBMuseum

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

The attacks on Canadian synagogues are getting bolder. This was not vandalism in the middle of the night. This was during Shabbat services.

What was he hoping to do if he got inside?

[Toronto Blue Jays @BlueJays]

Happy #Passover to all our fans celebrating!

Chag Sameach 💙

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

I am very, very uncomfortable with @wabkinew - a politician I admire - using the "Epstein class" epithet in both his speech and social. That means it was calculated.

And @wapo, and others, have shown how it is now a favored term of antisemites. #cdnpoli #mbpoli

[David Frum @davidfrum]

It's apparently a newly controversial position, but American Jews should have the right BOTH to support the state of Israel as the redeemed national homeland of the Jewish people AND ALSO not to have their children murdered by depraved gunmen.

[Matt Gurney @mattgurney]

Canadian politicians need to understand that “there is no place for this here” or “this isn’t who we are” statements in response to antisemitic violence and criminal intimidation is RAPIDLY becoming our version of Republicans offering thoughts and prayers after a school shooting.

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

The belief that Jews are to blame for their own persecution is fundamental to antizionists, as it was to antisemites before them.

It's a rhetorical flip that makes every act against Jews another reason to hate Jews. 1/2

[Jeffrey Sachs @JeffreyASachs]

I’m not one to marinate in Jewish victimhood or vulnerability, but this particular ubiquitous response (“False flag!”) is repulsive. The number of genuine, confirmed attacks keeps piling up. But they still trot out same pathetic deflection. It’s pathological.

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

Courageous statement by Ontario Camps Association https://t.co/2QcSngzoex

[Jamie Gutfreund @JamieGutfreund]

I am also a proud Jewish Canadian. To my knowledge, I'm probably one of the only openly Jewish news anchors in the country, and apparently that's one too many for this antisemite. What we are witnessing in our city & country are the clear signs of a society in decay & decline.

[Deborah E. Lipstadt @deborahlipstadt]

Australian Prime Minister @AlboMP visits Ahmed el-Ahmed, the man who attacked one of the murders but doesn’t visit the victims. He’s trying to turn this into a “good news” story. It’s not. One exceptional act by a hero does not obliterate the murderous terrorism of #bondibeach

[Robyn Urback @RobynUrback]

Imagine quoting someone calling for the de-normalization of antisemitism, calling it divisive and disgusting, and then acting as if you’re standing up for the Jewish community

[David Frum @davidfrum]

The anti-Israel movement in the West often expresses itself in acts of symbolic violence, in genocidal chants, and in terrorist dress-up. Fantasies of murder naturally mutate into the reality of murder.

[CP24 @CP24]

Hate Crime Unit investigating after Jewish prayer scrolls removed from doorways of North York homes
https://t.co/0Mn92FxE1o

[Baseball Quotes @BaseballQuotes1]

Pitch 5 🙄

This just cannot happen in the World Series

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

"I am under no obligation, legal, moral or otherwise, to love Jews, and I do not love them. If that means I meet the Jewish definition of anti-Semitism, so be it”

A 71-year-old man stabbed an elderly woman in a kosher supermarket in Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦 earlier this week.

Then, antisemitic social media posts by the same man came to light.

Thankfully, the woman has since been released from the hospital.

I’ve said it so many times. Hate online turns into real attacks on Jews in the street.

Stop ignoring it. It’s time to call this out.

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

Someone smashed the windows of three Jewish-owned businesses in Toronto on Friday night.