Norman Spector was chief of staff to then-prime minister Brian Mulroney, Canada’s envoy to both Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the mid-90s, and later publisher of the Jerusalem Post. From his prominent perch on the X social media platform, he is now a commentator and media critic. He spoke to Rob Roberts, editor-in-chief of National Post, via text on the eve of the second anniversary of the October 7 attack on Israel:

Q; Norman, I’ve just left an October 7 commemoration at a Halifax synagogue and I’m not sure I can adequately summarize what I heard, but it is at least in part this: Jews feel alone right now. That the brief moment where it seemed antisemitism was on the wane, that moment had passed and that something far, far worse has replaced it. And that Canadian Jews know they

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