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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at Holy Blossom Temple synagogue in Toronto on June 1, 2026. Photo by Ernest Doroszuk \/Toronto Sun<\/p>\n
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL \u2013 Where does hate come from?<\/p>\n
Lots of things \u2013 envy, resentment, ideology, economic distress, ignorance, indifference.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been writing about hate for 40 years, and I can tell you that indifference ranks pretty high up on the list, lately.<\/p>\n
Mark Carney is a practitioner of indifference. He visited a Toronto synagogue last week \u2013ostensibly to deliver a prime ministerial denunciation of the variant of hate that is antisemitism\u2013 and he couldn\u2019t once articulate the causes of the problem, or its remedies.<\/p>\n
He offered up some platitudes and quoted philosophers, instead. He acknowledged antisemitism in Canada, yes, but he just seemed a bit \u2026 indifferent to it all, and what to do about it. The orgy of antisemitism that has beset the country he leads doesn\u2019t really affect him or his social circle. But he\u2019s been hearing about it from G7 leaders over canap\u00e9s during his international travels, and it\u2019s all a bit embarrassing.<\/p>\n
So, he made a speech. Box, checked.<\/p>\n
Here in Israel, where I was for the Tel Aviv International Documentary Festival\u2013 promoting a film I helped put together about antisemitism\u2019s causes and remedies\u2013 lots of people mentioned Carney\u2019s speech to us Canadians. They, too, were unimpressed by the Prime Minister\u2019s failure to meet the moment.<\/p>\n
Antisemitism exploded globally after Oct. 7, 2023<\/p>\n
To them, however, indifference wasn\u2019t the biggest problem. To them, the global explosion in antisemitism we\u2019ve all witnessed since Oct. 7, 2023 \u2013 when apathy about antisemitism culminated in the biggest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust \u2013 has one cause above all: social media.<\/p>\n
Over and over, I heard that from Israelis.<\/p>\n
Antisemitism has always been with us, they said. But it is now amplified by algorithms and hashtags and AI and bot farms and the total indifference of Messrs. Musk and Zuckerberg. And Carney.<\/p>\n
The data bears that out. The Antisemitism Research Centre of the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) issued a report about the problem while I was in Israel. CAM found that antisemitism has become so pervasive online, now, one no longer needs to search it out. Antisemitism will simply find you.<\/p>\n
CAM studied Instagram, which is overwhelmingly favoured by young people, among whom antisemitism has gone viral, as they say. Even with Instagram posts about a subject as benign as \u201cwellness\u201d \u2013 fitness, diet, clean living \u2013 antisemitism pops up like some noxious weed.<\/p>\n
Wrote the CAM people: \u201cAcross three days of 45-minute sessions (on Instagram), accounts were served content that escalated, without any active user intent, from clean eating advice and fitness motivation to conspiracy theories and explicit antisemitic content, including translated Nazi propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wellness videos descended into coded or explicit antisemitism a third of the time. Fitness videos, a quarter of the time. It is an extraordinary discovery: Jew hatred is now popping up on the screens of fitness buffs before they \u201chave built any meaningful interaction history.\u201d<\/p>\n
People were being \u201cindependently routed\u201d to antisemitic content on Instagram, in other words, without even asking for it.<\/p>\n
Think about the implications of that. From mainstream content, to anti-establishment framing, to conspiratorial content, to coded antiseptic narratives, to explicit antisemitism, all within a matter of minutes. Served up to you when you\u2019ve only gone looking for tips about calories and workout routines.<\/p>\n
In the newest Harper\u2019s magazine, which also came out when I was in Israel, there is a fascinating essay about all of this by Tony Price , a Toronto music producer who is a bit of an expert about how things show up on the little computer found in your pocket or purse.<\/p>\n
Writes Price about the music industry (but about more than that): \u201cWe\u2019ve crossed into a new situation wherein an entire layer of (content) now simulates the conditions under which virality appears to occur naturally \u2026 The goal is the systematic shaping of perceived reality.\u201d<\/p>\n
The people trying to sell you things \u2013 a weight-loss pill, the new Shawn Mendes album, Globalizing the Intifada \u2013 use burner fake-fan ecosystems, coordinated content blasts, comment-section engineering, micro-influencer seeding and trend-baiting, writes Price. There are even firms you can pay to do all of this for you, of course, and they\u2019re quite proud of what they do. It\u2019s creating \u201ca groundswell,\u201d they boast.<\/p>\n
The problem is that it is all a lie.<\/p>\n
\u201cReality is no longer measured after the fact,\u201d writes Price. \u201cIt is staged and then fed back into perception loops until it feels real.\u201d<\/p>\n
Disinformation, manipulation and fakes, showing up like an uninvited guest who won\u2019t ever leave.<\/p>\n
The new antisemitism, amped up by social media, is the uninvited guest.<\/p>\n
As Tony Price writes: \u201c(It\u2019s) the quiet reconstruction of the conditions under which discovery appears to occur. Not by introducing music to listeners \u2013 but by staging the conditions in which it feels as though it arrived on its own.\u201d<\/p>\n
Online Jew hatred is like that now, too. It is showing up everywhere, unbidden and unopposed.<\/p>\n
Perhaps that\u2019s why Mark Carney doesn\u2019t seem to care about it, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at Holy Blossom Temple synagogue in Toronto on June 1, 2026. Photo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[3124,17,27484,111],"class_list":["post-79516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-antisemitism","tag-canada","tag-hate-speech","tag-mark-carney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}