Barbara Kay columnist and writer focusing on political subjects

France's long history of antisemitism hangs over Paris Olympics

July 27, 2024

On Sept 5-6, 1972, over the course of 20 hours during the Munich Olympic Games, 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were tortured and murdered by the terrorist group, Black September, an affiliate of the ...

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Schools Must Scrap Anti-Racism Objectives That Risk Encouraging Anti-Semitism

June 25, 2024

Earlier this month, the Fraser Institute published the results of a commissioned poll, conducted by Leger, that sought to know how Ontario parents of children in schools—both public and private&...

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The glaring silence of Jewish studies departments as anti-Israel mobs overrun their universities

June 16, 2024

MONTREAL — In a 2008 Commentary Magazine article, Ruth Wisse, who in her youth was a Jewish studies pioneer at McGill University, issued a warning to diaspora Jews: if Arab “rejectionism&r...

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Amid Marginalization of Christians in Gaza, 3 Christian Countries Endorse Palestinian Statehood

May 27, 2024

Israel is home to about 150,000 Christians, 80 percent of them Arabs. They live and prosper in security and equality with their fellow Jewish and Muslim citizens. But they are an anomaly in the Middle...

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Radical Islam's western fangirls

May 19, 2024

The most compelling evidence for Hamas’s atrocities on October 7 came straight from the source: live video from GoPro cameras strapped to the terrorists’ bodies. Why, all sane people wonde...

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Rex Murphy was the people's intellectual

May 13, 2024

Robert Rex Raphael Murphy was a great Canadian. His profound erudition could have led to a career in academia, but, fortunately for us, Rex chose journalism because he hated footnotes. In voice and pr...

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Pro-Hamas law students paying the price

May 5, 2024

For seven months, since Oct. 7, university students have been enjoying revolutionary cosplay. Their faces swathed in Arafat scarves, they wave flags, demand Israel disinvestment, scream mantras premis...

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Ottawa Should Support Canadian Muslim Groups That Condemn Hamas, Instead of Funding Anti-Semitic Ones

April 16, 2024

According to a January report submitted to Israel’s Knesset regarding anti-Semitism around the world since Oct. 7, anti-Semitism is up 800 percent in Canada (higher than France, Germany, and the...

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BC Must Reject Activist Demand to Teach Historically Inaccurate Account of 1948 Arab-Israeli War in Schools

April 7, 2024

A pro-Palestinian activist group called Nakba Education BC has sent an open letter and a petition to Minister of Education Rachna Singh demanding that “the Nakba” be immediately (“NO...

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Antisemitic La Presse cartoon highlights double standard of political satire

March 26, 2024

On March 20, La Presse published a cartoon, drawn by their longtime cartoonist Serge Chapleau, which depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a repulsive vampire — big nose, bald he...

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Is TikTok responsible for Gen Z's hostility toward Israel and Jews?

March 24, 2024

Last week, with bipartisan support, the United States House of Representatives voted to force the sale of TikTok, the video-sharing platform owned by ByteDance, a company under the influence of the Ch...

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Canadian Restrictions on Kosher Slaughter of Animals Don’t Make Good Optics

March 18, 2024

You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who will defend animal suffering as a value in itself. But few of us are animal rights absolutists—that is, who believe animals have the right not to b...

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There’s Nothing to Admire in Aaron Bushnell’s Gruesome Self-Immolation

March 4, 2024

On Feb 25, Aaron Bushnell, 25, an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, livestreamed himself in the act of setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. He had already al...

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Young Jews must be hardened against the torment they face in university

March 2, 2024

The following is a transcript of a recent speech given by National Post columnist Barbara Kay at an event hosted by the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation. My rhetorical writing standards and...

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Israel a true Indigenous success story

February 24, 2024

In the news turbulence following the Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, here and there one saw evidence of surprising Zionist bedfellows. A few months ago, for example, a fascinating video circulated on X, feat...

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Leninism Is Alive and Well Among the West’s Multitude of ‘Useful Idiots’

January 23, 2024

An old Soviet joke opens with a set-up question: What was the world’s most significant historical event in 1875? Punchline: Vladimir Lenin turned 5. As the joke implies, Lenin was held in awe t...

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Defamation case against antisemitic slander only the beginning

January 14, 2024

On July 10, 2020, a statement of claim for defamation was issued against Kimberley Hawkins, owner and “directing mind” of now-closed Toronto Bloor St. eatery, Foodbenders. The plaintiff, S...

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To Uphold the Preferred Narrative, Media Will Go to Any Lengths to Demonize Israel

January 10, 2024

The news story of the year in 2023 was indubitably Hamas’s Oct. 7 pogrom in southern Israel and its aftermath. Hamas’s monstrous achievement stunned the world. Equally stunning was what th...

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The Christian organization that is a true friend of Israel's

December 24, 2023

Since Oct. 7, I have been writing columns about alarming spikes in antisemitism and the revival of Jews’ historical fears. But in this, my pre-Christmas and final column of 2023, I feel bound to...

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The useful idiots trotted out to bash Israel

December 17, 2023

Have you heard the expression, “Two Jews, three opinions”? Truly, we have always been a contentious people. In judging the worthiness of any particular internal debate, our sages applied ...

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