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I'm Done with Having to Explain Myself to Jew-Haters
(Toronto Sun-Canada) Lorrie Goldstein - As a Canadian Jew, I'm not going to apologize for my right to exist. Nor for my views about the Israel-Hamas war. I'm not the one shooting up schools, firebombing community centers, vandalizing bookstores, phoning in death threats, painting swastikas on people's homes, intimidating patrons coming out of restaurants and political events, or trying to block rail lines. The late British Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, head of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, correctly observed that "Whenever you hear human rights invoked to deny Israel's right to exist, you are hearing the new anti-Semitism." That's what you're doing. You know it, I know it. But here's the thing. We survived the Holocaust. Do you really think we won't survive you?