It's because a lot of Canadians don't know exactly what's happening in the Middle East, just as most of us here don't know what's happening in Botswana or other countries around the world. There are many of them. There are a lot of things happening.
When people are seeing information that is specifically trying to demonize and demoralize a people who are at war for their rights and their existence, it's going to shape people's attitudes and it's going to shape people's perception. This has led to the drastic explosion of the anti-Semitism, hate and violence that we see on the streets, with restaurants and community centres being shot at.
The police have spent tens of millions of dollars trying to maintain the anti-Semitic rallies that we see, the pro-Hamas rallies that we see. This has an effect on people who are watching, as it would on anyone. If you are seeing just one narrative of “bad guy over here, good guy over here”, it's going to cause anger and frustration, as it would in anyone.
This is what we're seeing from the CBC and many other news outlets. They're not reporting unbiased information. They're not reporting two sides of a story. They report one, and that's what they move forward with. That report lends itself to the vilification of the Jewish community for actions that are happening thousands of miles away.
There is no other community responsible for the actions of their foreign government. We don't see people attacking Chinese Canadians because of what China is doing. We don't see people attacking North Koreans because of their dictator. The only people in Canada who are responsible for a foreign government thousands of miles away are in the Jewish community, and we see it with the constant violence on the streets and everywhere. This is lending itself to the increase of anti-Semitism.