Ari David Blaff
National Post, July 15, 2025
“Jewish schools in Ontario are having a hard time dealing with the inflow of new students abandoning the public system. Canadian multiculturalism is ailing and may be on its deathbed.”
Over 40 per cent of antisemitic incidents targeting Ontario Jewish students since the October 7 terrorist attacks have included a Nazi salute or statements such as, “Hitler should have finished the job,” according to a new federal report published Monday.
The survey, commissioned by the Office of the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, drew on the testimonies of 599 Jewish parents across the province who reported 781 antisemitic incidents in elementary schools and high schools between Oct. 7, 2023 and January 2025. The survey, which was conducted between January and early April 2025, found that less than 60 per cent of antisemitic incidents during this period specifically involved Israel or the ongoing war.
“Something has gone terribly wrong with our promises of ‘Never Again’ when over 40 per cent of the incidents in this study involved Nazi salutes, Holocaust denial, and overt verbal hate such as ‘Hitler should have finished the job,’ Deborah Lyons, Canada’s special envoy on antisemitism, told National Post in a written statement. “We need to seriously consider antisemitism education, not just Holocaust education.”
The report found that in September 2024, a Grade 9 student in York Region District School Board (YRDSB) was berated by a classmate and called a “terrorist, rapist and baby killer.” That same month in Waterloo, a teenage Jewish girl was surrounded by five male students as they shouted “Sieg Heil” and made the Nazi salute around her. ….SOURCE