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MP Anthony Housefather denounces poster telling him to ‘get out of Canada’
Global News
Housefather has been reflecting on his future within the Liberal party since the motion on the Israel-Hamas conflict passed with significant Liberal amendments on March 18.
Liberal Member of Parliament Anthony Housefather is denouncing a poster that appeared on a Montreal lamppost asking him to “get out of Canada.”
“My family has been here since the 19th century and we have indeed helped build this country,” Housefather said in a post on the social media site known as X.
“I am not going anywhere. Sorry antisemites. You may not like what I have to say but I will keep saying it and I will keep being a proud Jew and a Zionist.”
Images of the poster online showed it displaying the Israeli flag next to the flag of Nazi Germany, calling Housefather a “neo-Nazi” and describing Zionism as “terrorism.”
Global News reached out to Housefather, who said his team has reported this incident to the police. He declined to comment further.
The Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel has sparked a dramatic surge of antisemitism across Canada, according to a Global News investigation earlier this year based on documents, interviews and figures compiled from police forces.
In December 2023, police in Ottawa arrested a youth who has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack against the Jewish community.
Housefather has been working with parliamentarians on a committee study into antisemitism on Canadian campuses, amid rising fears from students who have said they feel unsafe.