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In response to the troubling rise in antisemitism and hate crimes targeting Jewish people, the Ontario government has announced a comprehensive overhaul of Holocaust education in the curriculum. 

A Canadian journalist accused of antisemitism by a pro-Israel advocacy group says she was fired for “speaking up about Palestine.”

Premier David Eby said the decision comes in response to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, which has created a “frightening time” for the Jewish community evoking “the history of persecution of Jews.” 

An instructor at York University is refusing to lead social justice seminars she is being paid to teach, citing the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Canada’s Jewish community is denouncing footage of pro-Palestinian Western and McMaster University students ripping down posters of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas. 

The London, Ont. university distanced itself from Sh. Aarij Anwer after an exchange between the chaplain and former Conservative senator Linda Frum on X, formerly Twitter.

The regulatory body for Ontario lawyers and paralegals is declining to comment on an anti-Israel letter issued by a group of law students at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) in support of “all forms of Palestinian resistance.”

Toronto Police Services are investigating numerous incidents involving unknown suspects committing antisemitic crimes across the city, including a reported incident that involved suspects banging on the door of a Jewish home and uttering hateful comments.

A pro-Palestinian protest that took place outside a Jewish-owned business in Toronto over the weekend has been condemned as an act of antisemitism by city mayor Olivia Chow.

Hamilton-Centre MPP Sarah Jama was kicked from the NDP caucus for refusing to retract statements she had made expressing anti-Israel sympathies including denouncing Israel as an “apartheid regime” and claiming that it’s committing “atrocities” in the Gaza strip.