Ohhh you've come to the right person on this. He considers converting to *Latvian* Orthodox to the dismay of his deeply Jewish-coded parents. But a single episode reveals an Italian relative of Frank Costanza, also played by Jerry Stiller. Otherwise, Jewish-coded character with Italian name.

I think this is true in the States but less so in Canada! It's more than "pockets" still doing 2010s 'wokeness.' It's part of how Canada can distinguish itself from the States, which reinforces it.

'Nobody really said things like that' they still are!! 'Nobody put things like that in job ads' they still are! Etc.

The Petrillos get an Italian backstory while also being George-like in their obvious Jewishness.

It is EVERYTHING that he doesn't give examples! It allows him to paint an image of a 'scene' or whatever where the sad reality is, few books, even less books coverage.

Literally which is the recent Canadian Zionist novel. I'm curious! Is something being subtweeted, let alone many somethings? If there is an "establishment" I'm it and I'm in the dark.

And the idea that novels have takes, they don't! I reviewed a novel recently (British not Canadian) where different Jewish characters gasp had different views on the Middle East. Where does that get classified?

The saddest thing to me as a Canadian is that this is the sad Canadian version of the big NYMag piece that came earlier and went deeper.

*don't, I make no claims of being a grammarian, just a book reviewer.

If there are all these new, highly celebrated pro-Israel Canadian Jewish novels coming out, just heaps of them, they must have TERRIBLE publicists if I, the person doing books coverage at The Canadian Jewish News, doesn't know about them!!

I'm also desperately curious to know where is this vibrant field, Jewish literary life in Canada. My work is partly tracking down basically *any* Canadian-Jewish book with any literary merit or not even and there are not terribly many of these!

Ah, that's also possible!

I'm lost - aren't we just saying the same thing? Non-Jews are disproportionately obsessed with Jews. This is the source of antisemitism, this is what antisemitism fundamentally *is*.

I'm not interested in doing point-by-point comparisons of how this is or is not like this or that comparison involving Jews. I'm interested in not being the perennial Boss Baby of the meme.

Lots of things are analogous to the Holocaust or to Gaza. These things are also analogous to A ZILLION OTHER THINGS including ones pertaining to the relevant populations (i.e. Japanese internment as closest analogy to current US immigration crackdowns)