The fight against antisemitism is not easy

‘How well we manage this period and how we emerge from this vitriol will in part determine whether we can be the just and compassionate society we thought we were,’ says Canada’s antisemitism envoy Deborah Lyons.

Deborah Lyons, Canada’s special envoy for preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism, says she took on the job because she worries about the rise of polarization in North America, writes Andrew Caddell.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

December 20, 2023

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—I remember the first time I came to grips with the Holocaust. At the age of 15, I arrived home after a high school dance to watch a late-night movie on television, Judgment at Nuremberg. The award-winning portrayal of the post-war Nuremberg trials...

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