As Canadian public schools and universities wind down the 2024-2025 academic year this week, Jewish students can enjoy a desperately needed break from what has, by many accounts, been a difficult year for antisemitism in classrooms and on campuses.
In the past school year alone, The CJN has reported on more than 70 education stories involving protests, vandalism, harassment, lawsuits, school board policies and other incidents that have occurred. Masked anti-Israel protesters smashed buildings at McGill University; a high school in Ottawa played a pro-Hamas song during the Remembrance Day ceremonies; a professor offered students extra marks for cutting class to join, and write essays about, a pro-Palestinian protest; Jewish teachers, and at least one pro-Israel school board trustee, have been accused of anti-Palestinian racism.
Unsurprisingly, enrolment in private Jewish day schools has been soaring, as worried Jewish parents transfer out of the public system so their kids won’t be bullied—or worse. And the battle playing out in Canada’s classrooms, board meetings and convocation ceremonies has been affecting Jewish teachers and faculty and students in many ways.
On today’s episode of North Star, host Ellin Bessner sits down with The CJN’s education beat reporter, Mitchell Consky, to take stock of the biggest stories of this past academic year and what the upcoming fall semester could look like.
Transcript
Ellin Bessner: That’s what it sounded like a few days ago at an Ottawa high school when the student valedictorian managed to slip in an anti-Israel message in her pre-approved speech, referring to children who died in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. Although she didn’t say where that number came from or if it was accurate or mention why Israel retaliated to Hamas’s October 7th massacre of Israelis. She said she couldn’t stand by while colonialism and genocide were being perpetrated and called for a free Palestine. The young woman, Elizabeth Yao, is not Palestinian. There were, as you heard, lots of cheers. But afterwards, the student was told not to come to school until she spoke with the principal and then she was allowed back within hours. On the same day, parents at the school received an apology, saying the little bit extra in the graduation speech wasn’t authorised. Then a local Jewish parents’ organisation said convocations are no place for geopolitics. Independent Jewish Voices sided with the Palestinians. Then the Ottawa Carleton District School Board was bombarded with 10,000 letters from pro-Palestinian lobby organisations claiming the principal was anti-Palestinian, that Palestinian voices were being silenced, and that everybody needed mandatory anti-Palestinian racism training.
And that just kind of sums up and bookends how fraught this past academic year has been when it comes to public school boards and universities and colleges in Canada, rhe first full year after anti-Israel encampments sprung up across the country’s university grounds. We’ve seen cases of professors posting hardcore pro-Hamas messages on their social media accounts. Then there were the kindergarteners being shown graphic videos of dead Palestinians by a lunchroom monitor. We’ve seen masked students at McGill smash a sports centre with Sylvan Adams’ name on it. In Calgary, on a campus there, students who were hearing from Israeli influencer Elon Levy were being physically penned in by protesters. There have been students who’ve been forced to take part in anti-Israel protests instead of the original plan, which was a learning excursion to help a First Nations community.
Shelley Laskin: Students experienced harm. It was clear, if, in fact, what was posted on social media is accurate, that a Jewish student was told, when she showed that it was uncomfortable, her teacher said, “Get over it.” A student that recently immigrated from India was told, when being called a colonizer, to “Get over it.”
Ellin Bessner: I’m Ellin Bessner and this is what Jewish Canada sounds like, for Friday, June 27, 2025. Welcome to North Star, a podcast of the Canadian Jewish News and made possible in part thanks to the generous support of the Ira Gluskin and Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foundation.
If you’ve been reading or listening to our work these past 10 months in The CJN, guess how many stories, articles, columns, and podcasts we’ve published about antisemitism and anti-Israel issues in education in this country?
Well, The CJN’s Local Journalism Initiative reporter Mitch Consky will know because he wrote most of them. It’s his beat covering education in both higher education and the public system. So now that the desks are being cleared out and most professors, teachers, and students are off on their summer holidays, this week we wanted to give our own report card on the year that just ended and what it’s meant for Jewish students, their families, Jewish professors, and trustees. And so Mitch Consky joins me now. Welcome, Mitch.
Mitchell Consky: Thank you so much for having me. Should we give them a grade? You mentioned this is a report card. Should we give this out, a grade? What do you think it should be?
Ellin Bessner: Well, I think that The CJN gets 10 out of 10 or an A plus! But we’ll talk about some of the more egregious ones. Do you know how many stories that you and our colleagues did, and me too, this year on this topic since September or since August last year, when school started?
Mitch Consky: I know personally, I must have written at least 30, maybe close to 40 stories since I was hired.
Ellin Bessner: And I did 10 podcasts, so that’s one a month. And our colleagues added another 23. So we’ve done 73 stories on this topic in 10 months. And what does this tell you?
Mitch Consky: I mean, this is—it barely scratched the surface. I—you know, when I first started here in August, I—was quickly overwhelmed with the number of stories that were coming in, and it kind of just felt like whack-a-mole. It felt like everywhere you look, there was a new egregious situation that was happening at a different school. I eventually realized that I wasn’t able to cover everything. So I started the newsletter called Sunday Syllabus, which goes out every Sunday. It just sort of recaps some of the bigger stories that are happening at Canadian universities and any educational institution from coast to coast. And yeah, it’s been. It’s been overwhelming.
Ellin Bessner: Yeah, I mean, I can’t imagine the things you’ve been hearing. So what we want to do today is start off with the university campuses. Okay? If that’s all right.?And then we’ll, at the end of our show, talk about the public sector. We’ll split half and half.
Mitch Consky: Sounds good.
Ellin Bessner: It’s graduation season. It’s convocation season. Many of them are done. You have a story that’s about to come out or will come out as soon as we finish recording this show about convocations. What are you hearing about whether it’s an uncomfortable place for Jewish students who are graduating or teachers and families? How are Jewish students handling all the anti-Israel and pro-Palestine rhetoric that they hear?
Mitch Consky: So Ellin, the unfortunate reality is that a lot of these convocation ceremonies are sort of devolving into these political battlegrounds where students, graduates are really taking their time to deploy messages. Sometimes anti-Israel, sometimes antisemitic. Sometimes there’s Jewish students that are doing these quiet acts of solidarity for Israel. Recently in Waterloo for an engineering convocation, the valedictorian took some time during his speech to accuse Israel of genocide and spew a lot of anti-Israel rhetoric. This also veered away from the pre-approved script that he had submitted to the convocation committee.
And the unfortunate reality is that this isn’t an anomaly. There’s been a few incidents like this. There also have been some students that have said that they’re not even interested in attending their convocation ceremonies this June. So it’s been political, it’s been divisive, and there’s been some hesitation with embracing what should otherwise just be a joyous academic milestone
Ellin Bessner: And full of naches for the family, which is why you have your kids do this, so you can go and watch them and then get naches.
So what are they telling you about how they’re approaching it? You said some are making their own stand. These are Jewish kids.
Mitch Consky: So some students are wearing their yellow hostage pins, which is in some ways a little bit less explicit than wearing an Israeli flag. But there are students that are doing that, too. There are students that are being loud and proud about their support of Israel.
Ellin Bessner: Are they allowed to do this? This is what I want to know. Like, is the Palestinian stuff allowed? Is the, is this, is the Jewish anything allowed?
Mitch Consky: So according to most dress codes, they’re not. But that’s not stopping large amounts of students from wearing keffiyehs. Multiple convocations. Already in the past month, there have been upwards of 20 to 30 students wearing keffiyehs and walking onto these stages. And, you know, some of these are speakers, some of these are valedictorians. So it’s been, it’s been riddled on both sides. Regardless of dress codes, people are not necessarily following them.
Ellin Bessner: So people are choosing not to go out of fear that they’ll be somehow uncomfortable, or are they actually physically in danger? (Because we’ve heard a case where–we’re not going to report it yet because the family’s asked us not to say anything–but their son was beaten up outside the convocation at an Ontario university because he wore a Jewish identifying symbol.)
Mitch Consky: Some students are choosing not to go to this ceremony just because of their administration’s lacklustre response to antisemitism throughout the year. They feel like they were unsupported, and they also don’t necessarily trust convocation committees to keep anti-Israel rhetoric out of ceremonies.
Now, in my piece that I just covered, the University of Waterloo, they claimed that they had no control over the matter. They had approved a previous script for this valedictorian, which he veered away from. Yet, they’re still revealing this speech on their website. The University of Waterloo has said that the words spoken during that speech do not align with the university’s stance. However, there’s a lot of conflicting opinions about how they approached it.
Ellin Bessner: But they didn’t edit it out.
Mitch Consky: Yeah, they didn’t edit it out. It’s still available. It’s still available on the website. So there’s a lot of conflicting opinions about how they approached it. And then there’s also the fact that a lot of students feel isolated within their cohorts. They feel like their fellow students have sidelined them or dismissed them. I spoke to one student who decided to reveal an Israeli flag on stage and then was unfollowed on social media by the rest of her classmates.
Ellin Bessner: So, Mitch, some of the universities that you’ve been reported on have had problems. We mentioned it in my intro, where there’s been a lot of violence against pro-Israel events or speakers that have come, or actually even occupation of buildings. But in terms of what McGill did, because they were particularly in the news a lot, they’ve been kind of the epicentre of a lot of this violence. How has McGill tried to kind of clamp down on their clubs and organizations, the Palestinian clubs and organizations, that are at the heart of making life miserable for Jews on campus?
Mitch Consky: So there’s been a few things. There was an injunction.
They revoked the club status of a major pro-Palestine, but really anti-Israel organization called SPHR. And then what happened afterward is they actually cut ties with McGill’s student union in general. Their student union seemed to be in support of a lot of the protests, a lot of the vandalism and violence that have been erupting on campus. They have been given fair warning. This happened in April, and some might say it happened a little bit too late. There’s already been so much galvanization against Jews and supporters of Israel on campus. There’s been destruction, there’s been violence. I do know that McGill’s president early on in this year has said that he’s going to do everything he can to try to protect Jewish students. Some might say he’s fallen short; others might say he’s done everything he could.
Ellin Bessner: You’ve mentioned injunctions. So Neil Oberman, for example, a lawyer and former candidate for the Conservative Party in Montreal against Anthony Housefather, has been at the forefront in Montreal, of filing injunctions on behalf of Concordia students because they’re not being able to go to school, and the school isn’t even enforcing its own kind of safety policies, mask policies, which they say, ‘Oh yeah, we hate antisemitism and we decry it’, but they do nothing.
Neil Oberman: The goal is, as per the conclusions, is to seek that Concordia, because it is responsible for its campus, ensures that rooms, classrooms, public spaces on the campus are not blocked or impeded so that our clients, the students, can benefit from them. It also seeks that any harassment or intimidation stop. Concordia has the power; it’s their campus, it’s their buildings. They control who comes on their buildings, they control what people do in their buildings. They have a legal obligation to ensure people are safe when they come onto their campus. There is a sui generis contract between the plaintiffs and the university to ensure that when you spend your money, you get what you’re entitled to get.
Ellin Bessner: So there’s a lot of these lawsuits still out there that happened in the last year. Do you remember some of the other universities that are facing these class-action lawsuits? UBC, I think, Diamond and Diamond was doing some of the lawsuits. Queens, I think also York,
Mitch Consky: University of Windsor too, for adopting what’s considered a BDS policy. I did write a feature article that is more of a deep dive into BDS in general, but it focused on Windsor. You know, there are some interesting things about the movement there in the sense that a lot of it seemed symbolic more so than practical. What I mean by that is a lot of the initiatives they were pushing for, financial divestments and boycotts from academic institutions and ties to Israel. They have third-party investors, they’re called external pools. It essentially means that these universities aren’t able to invest specifically in companies. They’re not able to pull their investments because they have these third-party investment pools. However, there was a motion to detract from any academic partnerships with Israeli institutions or Israeli scholars. There is a lawsuit on behalf of CIJA who has claimed that this is an act of antisemitism, and it seems to discriminate against any potential academic futures between scholars from Israel and scholars from Canada at this university. That’s one of many other lawsuits that have sprung up in the last year.
Ellin Bessner: Encampments said that “We’ve made victories here. In Windsor they were the, I would say, the worst or the best, depending on how you look at it, in terms of how much they conceded to pro-Palestinian encampments. But the actual impact has been small.
Mitch Consky: Yeah, it’s been incremental.
Ellin Bessner: I went to Windsor in November and interviewed some of the students, people, and families, and Jewish officials at the university, including Justin Hébert, who was a law student there. One of the things that the universities have done, including Windsor, is to hire a Jewish student liaison advisor. The students were like, “This is all fine, but it’s kind of dumb because the university doesn’t know what antisemitism looks like and doesn’t care.” I’ll let you hear from Justin himself.
Justin Hébert: Jewish students have sort of had to bear the brunt of that, both in how anti-Semitism manifests very directly and also very indirectly. And I would say the second biggest thing that we’ve been dealing with is sort of another creature of the agreements that happen, which is the establishment of a Palestinian student advisor and a Jewish student advisor. We’ve sort of had to, I guess, try to foster a sense of coexistence on campus, sort of create a fragile peace, you could almost say. Right now, Jewish students have concerns over whether or not this actually remedies anything, whether or not this student advisor can actually help us achieve a lot of our objectives, and help us address a lot of the issues that we’ve pointed out on campus.
Ellin Bessner: You were covering Ottawa U. That was where Hassan Diab, the professor who was convicted of bombing a Paris synagogue, was teaching for many years. Then he, he’s no longer teaching there after there was a whole big hoo-ha by Jewish leaders, including the Israeli ambassador, Iddo Moed, whose friend’s mother was killed in that bombing.
Iddo Moed: I think universities by themselves have to understand that employing somebody who’s been convicted of terrorism and who is responsible for the death of four people, one of them is also an Israeli, Alisa Shagrir. This is something that is intolerable. It’s unthinkable.
Ellin Bessner: What else happened at Ottawa U. that you covered when they did hire a Jewish liaison person, Artur Wilczynski?
Mitch Consky: Yes. So Artur actually was only in that position as advisor, the official antisemitism advisor, for about three months. He, by the way, was. He was. The Ottawa U. was the first university to actually hire this position. There was the “Beeper” attack in Lebanon, and he made some comments on social media, including a Roadrunner gif with the caption “beep beep” on it. But he also commented on the fact that this was a precise attack. Now, Artur comes to this with a little bit of experience. He worked as a public servant in national intelligence.
Ellin Bessner: Ambassador to Norway.
Mitch Consky: Yeah, yeah. And.
Ellin Bessner: And DEI. He’s an expert in that.
Mitch Consky: Well, he mentioned that he was merely commenting on the precision of this attack as a way of minimizing casualties and targeting specifically, you know, the people that Israel meant to,
Ellin Bessner: Hezbollah terrorists.Right.
Mitch Consky: Yeah. Yes. What Artur told me is that there was backlash. Well, before this happens, he basically explained that as soon as he suggested any support of Israel, there was a target on his head. He had been getting emails from the student community long before this happens, s soon as he got his position and, you know, after three months, it just kind of boiled over. All these people against him sort of used his tweets as a reason to push him out. His resignation was voluntary,
Ellin Bessner: But he said that, you know, he’s kind of ineffective anymore because, you know, he can’t serve the community.
You were hired to cover campus antisemitism, but because of what happened after October 7th, you had to put on two hats.
Mitchell Consky: Right.
Ellin Bessner: I don’t know how you do it, but let’s talk about this anti-Palestinian racism thing, and where in the school boards are you covering that? You’re seeing this has become a huge issue.
Mitch Consky: So I, I think first we should flag one of the major catalysts for me extending my beat towards elementary and public schools beyond universities. I think the biggest catalyst was the Grassy Narrows River Run, which was, you know, it was a protest that happened at the beginning of the year in Toronto.
Ellin Bessner: September, right.
Mitch Consky: And it was, sorry, I said protest. It wasn’t a protest. It was meant to just be, you know, an act of reconciliation. It was a march.
Ellin Bessner: Before we go, Grassy Narrows is a First Nations community in Northern Ontario where they have mercury, water issues and health issues because of mercury in the water. So they come, they do these marches outside Queen’s Park. Right?
Mitch Consky: Yes, yes. It was really just meant to, as I said, to just be this, this moment of reconciliation. But it did have multiple students spewing some anti-Israel rhetoric. You know, I wrote down some of what they had been saying.
Teacher: You guys are just going to repeat after me. “From Turtle Island to Palestine.”
Students Turtle Island to Palestine.
Teacher: Occupation is a crime.
Students: Occupation is a crime.
Mitchell Consky: There were banners. It was ugly. Now afterwards, all hell broke out within the TDSB, and it ultimately inspired a provincial probe into the TDSB. Afterwards, the investigation ultimately concluded that the media took it out of proportion.
Ellin Bessner: Yeah, it’s all our fault for even shining a spotlight and recording any of this stuff! Right?
Mitch Consky: It’s, it’s, that’s disputed. You don’t really know. At the end of the day, there’s videos all over social media of students yelling these anti-Israel chants. I don’t know if it was as much of a coordinated effort as maybe some media coverage made it seem to be. But the reality is it did ruffle some feathers, and it caused me to extend my beat into elementary public schools as well as universities.
One of the most painful meetings I had to sit through was merely a meeting that would receive a recent antisemitism report. This report was months in the making. It deployed multiple Jewish organizations throughout Toronto to try to develop a framework that could lead to the next steps of actual recommendations. This was a.
Ellin Bessner: For what?
Mitch Consky: For antisemitism, for how to combat antisemitism in schools. Now, what was astonishing was the amount of backlash that was received because of the definition of antisemitism. Part of this report was able to correlate anti-Zionism with antisemitism. This actually brought in probably about 40, maybe 50 anti-Israel self-proclaimed Jews to speak during the delegation. One of the things that I followed up with, it was actually the verification process. A lot of these people said that they were Jewish, and there was no verification to prove that to be the case. There were cases of delegates claiming heritage or relations to previous Holocaust survivors, and then those relations were debunked shortly afterwards.
Ellin Bessner: You must have spent 11 hours one night watching one of these meetings? Like it was crazy.
Mitch Consky: It went on and on. The reality is that this was only to receive a report. This wasn’t upholding any recommendations or strategy. This was the next step towards developing an antisemitism framework that they have been trying to establish for years. Shelley Laskin has been doing a lot of incredible work, and they’ve been taking some steady steps towards building a strong antisemitism framework. But there’s been so much conflict and disagreements about terminology, about definition, that it’s been difficult to proceed with clear steps towards actually combating antisemitism in Toronto schools.
Shelley Laskin: But the fact that Jews in our schools in Toronto are being blamed for actions of a government in Israel is incredibly problematic. I do think that because we use the IHRA definition in the TDSB, this isn’t about the politics of the State of Israel. This is about simply the fact that Israel, we, you know, the majority of Jews feel that Israel has the right to exist. And when we see signs calling for the destruction or the annihilation of the Jewish people, it’s hate, pure and simple, and it has to be stopped.
Ellin Bessner: Now, what happened at these meetings is they were saying, you’re trying to silence Palestinian voices. They correlated fighting antisemitism equals anti-Palestinian. That’s what I want to talk to you about. So, where is that at now in the Toronto school board.
Mitch Consky: This is the biggest school board and they really do reflect things that are happening on a wider basis. The TDSB has recently looped in what’s called APR, anti-Palestinian racism, with a larger framework for approaching or confronting antisemitism in schools. Now, despite the fact that after multiple 11-hour meetings where the school board was not able to actually agree on a clear definition of antisemitism, and also that they were not even willing to receive a report because of their disagreements on that definition, it’s important to identify the fact that APR currently has no distinct definition, at least in their framework, at least in their legal understanding of what that means. It can open a lot of doors for ambiguity. If a student wears an Israeli flag to school or wears an Israeli soccer shirt, can that constitute as APR? Without a clear definition of what APR means, it potentially could be. Now, what’s interesting is they also have concluded that senior staff will be receiving what’s called APR training. And as Shelley Laskin, you know, trustee Shelley Laskin, a tireless supporter of the Jewish community, she cautioned that without a clear definition of APR, this could become a slippery slope. You know, that’s kind of where we’re at right now. This larger anti-hate framework is tabled until October, and we’re yet to see how they’re going to use it to come up with clear strategies for moving forward.
Ellin Bessner: This comes on top of the day-to-day walkouts and harassment and feeling isolated that Jewish kids have had all year. I heard at Rawlinson Public School in Toronto, where there’s a whole judicial review going on, about the Jewish parents who were elected democratically to run the public school’s Parent Council, that the people who are anti-Israel are trying to get them out. People are trying to overturn a PTA, which isn’t even an elected, like a paid thing, it’s just a volunteer thing.
I also heard at that school last week that a kid was asked, what do you want to do when you grow up soon? This kid stood up six years old and said, I want to kill Jews. And everyone clapped. So, this is what the kind of things that we are all hearing, whether it’s anecdotally or on your social media accounts, which you probably see all the time.
Mitch Consky: I do want to mention the story that I wrote about teachers because that story was, in the year that I’ve been with The CJN, that was the most difficult to write because of the amount of fear that teachers have over losing their jobs because of incidents like this. And I’m not talking about ambiguous or subtle antisemitism. I’m talking teachers that have been handed images of Hitler. I’m talking teachers that had swastikas drawn in snow on their windshields. These teachers are afraid of speaking up because they’re afraid that, a) their administrations aren’t going to back them, and b)also their unions aren’t going to back them.
That’s evident to how big of a problem we’re dealing with not just in universities, not just in public schools, but, you know, in Canada in general. And you know, I hope that collectively as a Jewish community we can, we can work through this.
Ellin Bessner: You wrote about the fact that Jewish enrollment in day schools is skyrocketing.
Mitch Consky: It’s truly remarkable that in the last couple of years there’s been some steady growth. And we can’t really, it’s not as distinct. We can’t necessarily say that there’s a direct correlation with this post-October 7th, but the numbers are pretty steady. Associated Hebrew Schools reported 24% of new students transferred from public schools, which is a pretty large number.
Ellin Bessner: That’s one in four.
Mitch Consky: Yeah. Bialik Hebrew Day Schools in the GTA, they grew to about 800 to a thousand more students. There’s definitely a lot of teachers, even in the public school, that I’ve spoken to, they’re pulling their own kids out of public schools and putting them into Jewish day schools. I know at Associated they had to create more classroom space because they just didn’t have enough space for the influx of students that were coming in.
Ellin Bessner: You mentioned some Jewish teachers and staff. Lisa Levitan, a very prominent teacher in Ottawa and the Ottawa Carlton District School Board, prominent community leader, was subject to a formal complaint about her pro-Israel advocacy to the Ontario College of Teachers. She could lose her teaching license. That’s new. And also, the school Trustee in Ottawa, Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth, resigned after years and years of, basically, they went after her when she called them out on antisemitism. They used all these things. And the last one was anti-Palestinian racism.
Nili Kaplan-Myrth: The straw that broke the camel’s back was a few weeks ago.
Ellin Bessner: Yeah. This was April 8th. Yeah, yeah.
Nili Kaplan-Myrth: Because I raised my hand at that meeting because a person who was representing the Equity Committee came to a school board meeting in protest against Israel. And I raised my hand, you know, I said, look, I don’t think that people around the room realize that this Equity Committee representative is wearing a keffiyeh to protest Israel. But, like, I don’t feel like it’s appropriate to antagonize Jews and Israelis. And I am Jewish and I’m Israeli, and the Jewish students and the Jewish staff, most of us are Zionists and most of us are going to feel like now the Equity Committee is taking a position, a geopolitical position, that it shouldn’t be. And I emphasized that it’s not the actual garb, it’s not the actual keffiyeh that’s the problem. The person who is wearing it posts on social media and says things that are extremely anti-Israel. And posted themselves that they choose to wear the keffiyeh as a protest against Israel.
Ellin Bessner: And they got 16,000 letters. And she was called anti-Palestinian, racist. So she’s like, I’m done. I can’t deal with these people. It’s toxic.
Mitch Consky: This beat has shown me how far the problem goes, you know, and it’s, it’s in classrooms with abusive podiums, it’s, you know, in encampments, it’s TAs, it’s almost in every facet of educational institutions. And look, I hope that new leadership can bring new energy and new ideas, but I hope that they’re prepared to, because it’s not going to be an easy ride.
Ellin Bessner: We’ll see what happens. Thank you so much for sharing your amazing work. Our listeners and viewers will look at all the links and review all the stories if they’ve missed any. And thanks so much for being with us on North Star.
Mitch Consky: Thank you so much, Ellin.
Ellin Bessner: And that’s what Jewish Canada sounds like for this episode of North Star, made possible in part thanks to Ira Gluskin and Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foundation.
Our show is produced by Zachary Judah Kauffman and Andrea Varsany. The executive producer is Michael Fraiman, and the music is by Bret Higgins. Thanks for listening.
Show Notes
Related links
- Read more about how, if at all, Canadian universities moved to adopt any of the divestment requests of the pro-Palestinian encampments’ students.
- Learn how Jewish students on campus are publishing their own newspapers because Zionist views are banned from longtime legacy campus outlets.
- Hear why the former dean of U of T’s medical school, Arnie Aberman, gave back his honorary degree in protest over campus antisemitism.
Credits
- Host and writer: Ellin Bessner (@ebessner)
- Production team: Zachary Kauffman (senior producer), Andrea Varsany (producer), Michael Fraiman (executive producer)
- Music: Bret Higgins
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