Teachers and school-sanctioned activities have been at the origin of many anti-Semitic incidents in Ontario’s K-12 school system, according to a new federal report.
The report was commissioned by Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Anti-Semitism and conducted by Robert Brym, a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Toronto.
The report found a sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Ontario schools between October 2023 and January 2025, and said around 17 percent of the incidents stem from “teacher or school-sanctioned activities expressing a point of view that made Jewish children feel unwelcome because they are Jewish.”
In addition, the report found that 49 percent of the total anti-Semitic incidents reported were not investigated by school authorities. …