Tal Becker

Israel was attacked, the enemy remains unrepentant, and therefore, whatever is done in response is justified.

This past summer, I had the honor of spending a month in Jerusalem at the Hartman Institute, where I studied with a number of scholars.

One of them, Rabbi Zach Truboff, introduced me to the concept of the fantasy of innocence.

Roughly defined, the fantasy of innocence is the way a person, community, or nation preserves a sense of its own innocence by locating responsibility somewhere else.

His father was also involved in the attack, but killed by the police.

ARC media contributor Tal Becker told us the commission played an important, almost therapeutic role in enabling the Jewish community to give real voice to their experience of anti-Semitism.

But there has been controversy over the commissioner's decision not to take a more confrontational approach, which she argued would undermine social cohesion, but others see as failing to hold anti-Semites and hostile actors to account.

There are also questions as to whether the Commission's report will go far enough and whether the current government will actually implement its recommendations.