A few years ago, I helped bring some community members together and a really prominent and successful Jewish woman made a comment that struck me very deeply. She roughly said, ‘for me to truly have trust, I would need to believe that you would hide me’. thread 1/10 This community leader whose name I won’t share was quite wealthy and for a second I thought, hold on, you could literally buy an entire island and fortify it and you worry about who would hide you here in Toronto??? 2/10

I sometimes here people minimizing antisemitism. They falsely point towards graffiti on synagogues not being a big deal, or bcuz some Jews are white passing so therefore the pain of antisemitism isn’t directed as harshly as other visible minorities. Thread 1/ Within some of my Muslim corners, I hear - well if Jewish orgs were less supportive of Israel then it would be easier to work with them. 2/