An Inside Look: Why Canada’s Leaders Fail to Combat Rising Antisemitism | with Selina Robinson

About this episode

Selina Robinson discusses the political fallout from her controversial remarks about Israel and the rise of antisemitism in Canada.

Selina Robinson is a Canadian politician and author of Truth be Told. After a webinar in early 2024, in which Robinson referred to the territory on which Israel was founded as “a crappy piece of land,” she became the centre of a political firestorm, in which activists and a group of Muslim clergy demanded her resignation. She was subjected to online harassment, including a credible death threat, and her constituency office was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti. Selina was consequently fire...

People in this episode

Host: Yasmine Mohammed

Guest: Selina Robinson

Topics covered

• antisemitism
• politics
• Canada
• harassment
• Islam

Keywords

• antisemitism
• Selina Robinson
• Canada
• politics
• harassment
• Israel

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Truth be Told

Places: Canada, Israel

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