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Jews against Israel have been front and centre in the antizionist movement, their voices featured regularly in media coverage about the conflict.
Their very existence lends credibility to the assertion that antizionism is not antisemitic.
But how representative are they of the Jewish community as a whole? Is their presence being weaponized against Jewish institutions, or are they willingly weaponizing their own Jewishness? And what do these individuals have to say about the presence of antisemitism in their movement?
Dave Meslin is a self-described antizionist Jew. He sits down for an in-depth interview.
CORRECTION (November 27, 2025): an earlier version of this episode mistakenly reported that a group of protesters shouted racist slogans while marching with Palestine Youth Movement at their October 4th, 2025 demonstration. While these protesters were demonstrating on October 4th at the advertised site of the PYM event, they did not in fact participate in the march.
Credits:
This series is a co-production of Canadaland and The Canadian Jewish News
Made possible by the generous support of The Bissell Family Foundation, George Burger, Dan Debow, Daniel Klass, Nanette Okun, Leslie Scanlon, Marjorie Skolnik, Lee Zentner, and others.
Written and Reported by Jesse Brown
Research and Story Editing by Kate Minsky
Original Music by Socalled
Sound Design, Mixing and Mastering by Caleb Thompson
Editorial Input from Michael Fraiman
Sources:
Hate-speech at protest at the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue in Montreal (link)
Independent Jewish Voices’ Sarah Boivin speech at the protest (link)
Police-reported hate crime in Canada, 2024 (link)
CSIS & RCMP report on youth radicalization (link)
Bomb threats to Jewish institutions in Canada since October 7th. (link) (link) (link)
Antisemitic and Islamist terror plots from Canada since Oct 7th. (link) (link) (link) (link) (link) (link) (link) (link) (link) (link) (link)
Jewish girls’ school hit by gunfire (link)
94% of Canadian Jews support the existence of Israel (link)
Palestine Youth Movement calls for a celebration of the October 7th Hamas massacre (link)
