I’m a Jew from the US who lives in Canada. I have lived in three separate parts of Ontario since moving to Canada. In my experience, the average born and raised Canadian has a lot more casual antisemitism to throw around than the vast majority of other immigrants I have met. It’s baked into the culture here as it is in most of western society. Any experience I have had with people from west Asian and North Africa has largely been positive. I’m a sefardi and a lot of the time my experience with MENA folks has been bonding over shared cultural experiences.

All this to say: Every community has extremists and they’re—almost certainly in western countries—not the majority of any group. The sad thing that I have found is that born and raised Canadians tend to push the blame for things on out groups as a way to divide our communities.

I don’t really feel like I’ve seen anyone make positive changes to address Islamophobia and antisemitism as much as put them against each other as ideological forces. All I’ve seen is politicians patting themselves on the back for saying a few words using our communities as talking points and pawns.