A federal government report suggests it’s open season on Jewish students in Ontario schools when it comes to being targets of antisemitism.
Equally alarming, it concludes schools and school boards are reluctant to address reports of antisemitism and are simply ignoring many of the complaints – or blaming the victims.
Authored by award-winning University of Toronto sociology professor Robert Brym, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada who has published more than 200 academic papers, the study, “Antisemitism in Ontario’s K-12 Schools,” was commissioned by Deborah Lyons, Canada’s federal special envoy on combatting antisemitism, and released in July.
In the same month, Lyons resigned her position, three months before her term of office was up, telling the she had grown “despondent and de