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Flood of Antisemitic Hate Seeping Its Way into Ontario Schools

This is the logo for Toronto District School Board.-wikipedia
This is the logo for Toronto District School Board.-wikipedia

 

Warren Kinsella

Toronto Sun, July 15, 2025

“(Half) of antisemitic incidents reported to school authorities were not investigated.”

The worst places for the explosion in antisemitic hate?

The United States, and then Europe — unsurprising, given their relative populations. But the country that has had nearly as many antisemitic crimes as all of the rest of the world?

Antisemitism — Jew hatred — has metastasized like a virus within this country. The statistics do not lie. Wherever one looks in Canada these days, antisemitism can be seen. In our streets, on our computer screens, in the media: The cancer of Jew hatred is ubiquitous in 2025.

And, too often, those we entrust with authority — teachers, union leaders, politicians, police, prosecutors, media — seem to be completely indifferent to it. But there are grim consequences that flow from that indifference.

Children, as any parents knows, are always watching. They observe grown-ups, they listen and they remember. And now Canadians children are clearly acting on what they have seen and heard elsewhere.

The Justin Trudeau Liberal government generally did an atrocious job combatting antisemitism. About that, there can be little debate. But a few days, ago, Mark Carney’s Ottawa actually did something useful: It released a report titled Antisemitism in Ontario’s K-12 Schools and — even in these dark days — it is a shocker…..SOURCE

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