What Canada's Election Results mean for Jews in the Diaspora globally: For over the last 18 months, violence against Jews under the leadership of the Liberal government has been parabolic. Schools have been shot at, synagogues have had their windows broken, Jewish owned shops have been destroyed, and protesters have marched through Jewish neighborhoods as a means to intimidate the community. Granted, the same can be said in many countries like Australia, France, the UK, the USA, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, and so on. Even with all of this, the issue of antisemitism was moot. In Canada, antisemitic attacks jumped 124% from 2022 to 2024. Quantitatively, there were 6,219 incidents in 2024. That means 1 attack for every 64 Jews in the country. This was not even a footnote factor for the election in Canada. It was brought up fleetingly by both parties. In effect, a mandate was given to the Liberal party to continue turning a blind eye to antisemitism...an issue that Prime Minister Carney did not even mention once during the campaign. The reality is that Jewish issues, and more or less the importance of antisemitism, is proving to be a tangential to non-issue at best, to a negative impact issue for a party, at worst, in deciding elections. With Australia's election set for May 3rd, and with the Labor Party polling far ahead, there is a real possibility that we are going to see just how powerless the Jewish diaspora is in many liberal democracies. The sad truth is that the demographics are not there. Jews are a minuscule percentage of the population in every country where we reside and hold very little power in deciding elections outside of our local municipalities anymore, even in the US. The issues that concern us, chiefly antisemitism, the relationship to Israel, and so on, do not move the needle on elections. Jewish leadership needs to start recognizing that the integration of Jewish issues into the fabric of politics is not working. Unless and until we recognize that we are too small a community everywhere to be divided anywhere, we will become even less relevant. I do not foresee this current crop of Jewish leadership recognizing this, and as such, I think we are going to become irrelevant. To that end, I believe that the diaspora is facing a crisis unlike any faced since the end of World War II. Liberal democracies have moved away from a society that champions a strict set of morals, for example, standing up to antisemitism irrespective of political leaning, to one that champions election victories over all else. Number one target in that? Us. What happened last night in Canada, which Australia will mirror on May 3rd, is a clear indication of the state of the Jewish diaspora and where it is heading. For Israel, it is also a telling sign of the decade to come as it pertains to relations with western nations. As Rabbi Hillel once said, "If I am not for myself, who will be for me?" It is time that we in the Jewish diaspora start recognizing that until we advocate for ourselves and not for specific political parties, we will see the continuation of this seemingly unstoppable antisemitism. More pessimistically, even if we do start standing together, it might not matter.