Antisemitism doesn’t come out of nowhere, it has to be taught, and a disturbing federal study suggests one of the places it’s being taught is in our schools.
That’s in Ontario, although there’s no reason to think the phenomenon is confined to one province.
The recent study — — by University of Toronto sociology professor Robert Brym, who has published more than 200 academic papers, was commissioned by Deborah Lyons, Canada’s special envoy on combatting antisemitism, before she resigned last month.
Brym surveyed 599 Jewish parents who reported 781 antisemitic incidents in Ontario’s kindergarten to Grade 12 education system, occurring between October 2023 (Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel occurred on Oct. 7, 2023) and January, after seeking input through 257 Jewish organizations.
Among