While Canadians generally are alarmed at rising incidents of antisemitism, a new poll finds that young Canadians are dramatically out of sync with the rest of the country on the subject. A plurality of virtually every category answered “Jews”: Retirees, Canadians with a bachelor’s degree, full-time workers. The most conspicuous exception was Canadians aged 18 to 24, who framed the country as being caught in a tide of anti-Muslim hate that easily eclipsed anything happening to Canadian Jews. Of the 1,600 Canadians surveyed for the January poll, 46.2 per cent reported seeing a recent increase in “hateful comments” against Jews, while 37.8 per cent reported the same thing for Muslims. Overall the results were flipped — although not by much; 52 per cent trusted the Palestinian line while 55 per cent trusted Israeli accounts.
