When the curriculum is Jew hatred

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? 

Canada.

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 that indifference.

Children, as any parents knows, are always watching. They observe grown-ups, they listen, and they remember. And, now, Canadians children are now 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.

Authored by respected University of Toronto Professor Robert Brym, commissioned by the Office of the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, the detailed report studied “the prevalence, nature, and impact of antisemitic incidents in elementary and secondary schools” across Canada’s largest province. There was a lot of it.

Brym interviewed 600 parents and examined nearly 800 antisemitic incidents at Ontario schools between October 2023 – when Hamas and Gazans killed, wounded, raped or kidnapped thousands of people in Israel – and January 2025. Among his findings:

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