The Six Percent Solution: An Analysis of Hate Legislation in Canada

Publication Date: September 1984

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Mark Silverberg

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Political Behavior; Community Relations; Anti-Semitism

Type: Report

Coverage: Canada

Abstract:

The author argues that anti-Semitism is on the rise in Canada and takes a different shape than in the past. The face of the new anti-Semitism includes: deepening hostility to Israel; an increase in potentially violent anti-Semitic incidents; the growing militancy of right-wing and left-wing extremist groups; the formation of an intellectual right, along with its racist ideas; and the efforts to falsify history by denying the Holocaust. The Canadian Jewish community must contend with these new conditions.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.61 no.1, Fall 1984.