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Does Canada recognize states led by homicidal, Jew-hating monsters?

Generally, we do not. At one time, we had bilateral relations with Afghanistan, for example. But when the Taliban took over in 2021, we severed ties. That was around the time, too, that the last Afghani Jews left. They had been warned they could be kidnapped or killed by the Taliban.

Similarly, Canada ceased diplomatic relations with Syria in 2012. By then, the few remaining Syrian Jews — having had their property confiscated, and having experienced years of human rights abuses at the hands of that county’s barbarous Ba’athist leaders — left, as well.

As a nation, then, we like to profess that we do not have diplomatic relations with terrorist groups, which these days are overwhelmingly antisemitic. We are a large natio