This made me sob. O! Canada!

I don't recognize the place where I grew up.

It took this to show me that I am not really as apathetic as I thought to the country in which I was born and bred. Yes, I have good memories of Toronto, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Vancouver….

But it was in Ottawa that I first was confronted with antisemitism in a way I could not ignore. It was directed at me, personally . . . . in the 1970s, when I left Toronto to study at Carleton University.

That brought me to learn more about being a Jew. And it brought me to make my life in Israel. I have been here since 1976.

Still, I could never have imagined what is happening in Canada now. And then, this man I do not know, Michael Rappaport, comes along and puts together a short videoclip and I break out in loud sobs. The juxtaposition of the national anthem, which we sang in school every morning at the start of the day in elementary school, was just too much to bear against the images.

You can follow Rappaport on “X.” I just did.

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