Toronto school board and Ontario education ministry to investigate how students ended up at a political rally featuring pro-Palestine slogans
Toronto District School Board (TDSB) will hold a special public meeting Wednesday, Sept. 25, one week after students attended a downtown rally for Indigenous rights, which ended up with some of them participating in a march and chanting pro-Palestinian slogans. The rally and march on Sept. 18 was organized by the Grassy Narrows First Nation […]
Hundreds rallied outside Toronto school board offices to protest a racism report that doesn’t mention rising antisemitism
UPDATE (6/20/24): The report was adopted by TDSB trustees with a request to incorporate data about antisemitism. A motion to include anti-Israeli racism was defeated as a result of an 11-11 vote. Hundreds of people filled the lawn in front of the Toronto District School Board (TSDB) to oppose a proposed anti-discrimination policy set to […]
The bullying that led hundreds to join 13-year-old Eitan Cohen on his Friday morning walk in Toronto is now being investigated by his school
Bullying allegations from a student at a Toronto public school, which motivated about 200 people to accompany 13-year-old Eitan Cohen on his Friday morning walk, were briefly investigated by the Hate Crimes Unit of Toronto Police. No charges were laid as a result—but now the school plans to handle it internally, with the participation of […]
Hundreds showed up to walk a Toronto boy to school after his family said he’s been facing antisemitic harassment from other kids
About 200 people came to a suburban Toronto neighbourhood on the morning of May 17 to support a child whose family says he has been the victim of ongoing antisemitic verbal and physical harassment at school. The family, fearing for the boy’s safety, asked for the community’s support to walk with him for the one […]
Toronto school board employee Javier Dávila is under investigation again—this time for comments he made on social media
The Toronto District School Board is investigating staff member Javier Dávila, after he commented on social media that a Jewish advocacy group’s post was racist and threatened student safety. The video of a pro-Palestinian student walkout, posted Nov. 10 by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), alleged that students at Marc Garneau Collegiate […]
New play set in Christie Pits takes Toronto students back in time to the 1933 riot
A new immersive play is transporting students back to the Toronto of 1933 to teach them about the infamous Christie Pits riot, which saw Jews and Italians battling antisemitic Protestants as a hours-long fight broke out at a baseball game. The idea to make a show about the event first came from Joe Rosenthal, whose […]
The mission that’s motivating Alexandra Lulka Rotman to seek re-election as a Toronto public school trustee—even after she felt exasperated by antisemitism in 2021
Why she’s putting last winter’s fight with the TDSB behind her to run again
A suspect is being sought after antisemitic graffiti was found at three Toronto high schools; the latest in a string of hateful incidents
UPDATE 3/5/22: Toronto Police are seeking a suspect based on security footage from Central Technical School from between the hours of 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. on March 2. The suspect is described as having a medium build and was wearing a dark jacket, grey pants, and light tan coloured work boots. “Nearly identical” antisemitic […]
Toronto’s Pleasant Public School is investigating an allegation of antisemitism—following two February incidents elsewhere
A Jewish substitute teacher in Toronto says she felt like she was the victim of a Hitler salute from two Grade 6 students at Pleasant Public School, located south of Steeles Avenue between Yonge and Bathurst Streets, on Feb. 24. According to a letter sent to parents from principal Brian Fong, students were asked to […]
Yet another ‘Heil Hitler’ salute—this time targeting a Jewish teacher—is reported at a Toronto middle school, in Flemingdon Park
For the second time in less than a month, students have done a Nazi salute in front of classmates in Toronto. In the latest incident, at Valley Park Middle School on Overlea Boulevard in the Flemingdon Park neighbourhood, two students did the Hitler salute—and one yelled “Heil Hitler”—at a French teacher who is Jewish and […]
