Outgoing antisemitism envoy calls out business, religious leaders for lack of action

Canada’s antisemitism envoy resigns abruptly: ‘It was hard to get people to speak up’

(JTA) — Canada’s envoy for combating antisemitism is leaving her job early, partly out of exhaustion from “waking up every day to a fight.” Deborah Lyons had been serving as Canada’s special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism since she took the job soon after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Her term was to end in three months. In a post on X on Thursday announcing her departure, Lyons wrote that her tenu…

Canada’s antisemitism envoy steps down early, citing exhaustion and rising hate crimes

Deborah Lyons, Canada’s antisemitism envoy, resigns abruptly: ‘It was hard to get people to speak up.’

Q&A: Deborah Lyons thinks having a non-Jew in the role ‘was exactly the right thing to do’ at the time

'I do think that this cannot be seen as Jews having to fight for themselves,' she says.

Canada’s antisemitism envoy resigns abruptly: ‘It was hard to get people to speak up’ - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Deborah Lyons' exit comes as new data shows that Jews remain the top target of hate crimes in Canada.

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Outgoing antisemitism envoy calls out business, religious leaders for lack of action

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