What Choice Do We Really Have? A Diaspora Jew From Canada and Australia Confronts Betrayal

Illustrative: Supporters of Hamas gather for a rally in Melbourne, Australia. Photo: Reuters/Joel Carrett

I was born in Canada. I’ve lived in Australia for more than 30 years. I have always considered myself blessed to live in these two liberal democracies — places that once proudly upheld human rights, justice, and moral clarity. I believed, maybe naively, that as a Jew and a Zionist, I was safe here. That I belonged.

But over the past two years, something fundamental has broken.