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National Post crosses dangerous line by publishing call for violence against NDP leader

·Oct 3, 2026
Source: Ricochet
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There is a line a responsible newspaper should never cross casually: the line between condemning a political opponent and portraying that opponent as a threat who must be dealt with. The National Post crossed that line in Yoni Goldstein’s column, “Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi Lewis.” The problem is not that Goldstein criticizes Lewis. Political leaders are supposed to be criticized, and Lewis, like every other public figure, is subject to scrutiny over his political positions and statements. The problem is the framework Goldstein chose to use.

Goldstein places a living Canadian political figure inside Jewish legal concepts including moser and rodef. In traditional Jewish law, a rodef is a person who is actively pursuing another person with the intention of killing or causing potentially grave harm. The legal concept known as din rodef (“the law of the pursuer”) concerns the obligation of every community member to intervene to stop an immediate and serious threat.

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