Vancouver City Hall on Jan. 9, 2021.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press Vancouver’s new city council got to work last week with the business of governing this fair city. Its first debate, moved from its regular council meeting to a separate day in order to accommodate more than 70 speakers, was about, of all things, antisemitism. A well-meaning councillor, wanting to show solidarity with a Jewish community dealing with a rise of antisemitism, introduced a motion to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition, which calls antisemitism “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical...