Last fall, Public Safety Canada released a document claiming that anti-zionism is a form of antisemitism. Until recently, Zionism/anti-Zionism was mostly debated inside Jewish communities and activist circles. Few non Jews knew what Zionism was or what it meant. Or cared. But in the last few years, Zionism has become a subject of mainstream public-policy debate. This is true in most of the Western world. Why? (photo credit IJV Canada)

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