Why CUPE leader Fred Hahn must go

Canadian Jews are facing a wave of hate unlike any they have seen in decades. Jewish schools have been shot up. Synagogues have been firebombed. In Toronto, police say, 45 per cent of the hate crimes recorded this year have been antisemitic. Only this week a mass bomb threat targeted dozens of Jewish institutions across the country, including community centres and hospitals.Demonstrators have streamed through the streets of Canadian cities accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, a vicious slur against a nation founded in the aftermath of the most notorious genocide in modern times. Encampments have sprung up on Canadian campuses to accuse Israel of being a brutal colonial oppressor and demanding universities break financial and academic ties with the Jewish state. All of this has left many Jews feeling profoundly shaken.Fully aware of what they are facing, union leader Fred Hahn reposted a video on his Facebook page on Aug. 11. The digitally altered video shows a diver with a Star of David tattoo on his arm jumping off a diving board at the Paris Olympics and turning into a bomb as he falls, leaving bleeding children and clouds of dust in his wake.