Canada’s antisemitism envoy resigns, citing exhaustion amid hate surge
Antisemitism in Canada surged following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel, culminating in a record 920 hate crimes targeting Jews last year. The spike in incidents prompted Deborah Lyons, the country’s special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combating antisemitism, to step down earlier this month, citing exhaustion from “waking up every day to…

