No Country For Anyone

It did not happen overnight:

A six-year-old child’s teacher told her she was “half human”because one of her parents was Jewish - one of nearly 800 antisemitic incidents in the Ontario elementary and high school system since 2023 reported to a federally commissioned survey.

Others included a 13-year-old girl being swarmed several times a day by classmates who raised their hands in a Nazi salute even as she begged them to stop, and Jewish children told by their teachers they were baby-killers for supporting Israel in its war with the militant group Hamas.

The stories relayed by Jewish families in a report for the Special Envoy for Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism reflect the rise in antisemitic incidents reported to municipal police nationwide since Hamas militants in Gaza attacked Israel in October, 2023. The ensuing war has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions more.

Antisemitism on university campuses has been explored by parliamentary committees, but the scope of the issue in the K-12 school system has received less attention at the federal level, in part because the schools are provincial responsibilities.

Envoy Deborah Lyons decided to embark on a probe after hearing numerous anecdotes from Jewish parents and organizations about the situation facing younger children. The final report was scheduled to be published Monday.

“Jewish students deserve what every Canadian child deserves: to feel safe, valued, and included in their classrooms,” Ms. Lyons said in a statement.

“This is not the reality today – and it must change.”

 

What must change is the removal of the largely symbolic and completely useless office of Special Envoy for Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism.

Such an office is window-dressing, taxpayer-funded moral preening, pointless busy-work to fool the masses.

If Miss Lyons truly cared about the rise anti-semitism, she would be bold enough to list the causes: a failure of moral education, a failure to properly address issues such as the Holocaust in schools, the rise in populations of those who espouse anti-semitism as a rule, no matter how much the Liberals or the near-defunct NDP need them.

It would also help if the Gestapo RCMP worried far less about those dreaded "traditional values" and spent more time on people who clog streets, mosques, and even schools and spread their anti-semitic filth.

That won't happen.

What also won't happen is the courage of the average Canadian to confront this disgusting social menace instead of seeing it as a foreign problem or even allowing themselves to acclimate to it.

But I expect too much.

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In addition, the report found that 49 percent of the total anti-Semitic incidents reported were not investigated by school authorities. 

 The report is based primarily on a survey conducted of 599 Jewish parents and their reports of 781 antisemitic incidents in Ontario’s K-12 schools, occurring between October 2023 and January 2025. The survey aimed to examine the “prevalence, nature, and impact” of anti-Semitic incidents in elementary and secondary schools across Ontario, where over half of Canada’s Jewish population resides.

 While the most frequent type of anti-Semitic incidents (around 35 percent) were harassment, threats, inciting violence, and insults delivered in person or online, in second place, at more than 17 percent, fell into the category of “teacher or school-sanctioned activities.”

Why does this sound familiar?:

 

 

Also:

Cabinet would criminalize the public display of “terror symbols,” says a briefing note by Attorney General Sean Fraser’s department. B’nai Brith Canada has sought a swastika ban following anti-Semitic street protests: “The government is considering legislative and other actions.”

 

The problem with that, you f---ing moron, is that banning such a symbol will do nothing in terms of preventing terrorist incidences.

Whatever will you do about Buddhist temples for which the properly aligned swastika is their religious symbol?