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25 percent of the perceived incidents involved either a professor or teaching assistant
A “national report” on antisemitism at Canadian universities revealed that almost 96 percent of Jewish students “experienced or witnessed at least one antisemitism incident” in the last year.
According to the CBC, there’s been a “widespread failure to address” the “alarming prevalence” of the problem.
The report came out the same day the think-tank Jewish Tulsa was noted for lobbying President Trump to give “refugee status” to Jewish Canadians wishing to leave the country.
Although Jews make up just one percent of Canada’s population, they comprised 68 percent of “religiously motivated hate crimes” in 2024, and just under 20 percent of “overall” hate crimes, according to the report.
The report combined a pair of late-2025 surveys; the first interviewed 900 Jewish college students and the second over 750 students from the general (campus) population.
A total of 25 percent of the “perceived” incidents involved either a professor or teaching assistant. One unnamed professor allegedly wrote “we should kill all Zionists,” and “that she’s worked with them and sees how evil they are.”
Other alleged (professor) comments included “Hitler was a hero,” and “Jews belong in Poland and need to go back.”
One student noted she got a “zero” on an assignment (from a women and gender studies professor) because it mentioned sexual assaults by members of Hamas during its October 2023 attack against Israel. The professor allegedly told the student to “instead focus on ‘Israeli police’s role in sexual assaults.'”
Additional findings from the report include:
- “72% limit what they say in class about being Jewish, and 57% avoid wearing or displaying Jewish symbols because of safety concerns”
- “34% said a professor introduced Jews, Judaism, Israel, or Zionism when unrelated to the course subject”
- “45% encountered Holocaust denial or distortion often or sometimes”
- “71% reported antisemitic vandalism”
- “63% were dissatisfied with how [reported incidents] were handled”
Jack Jedwab, president and CEO of the Association for Canadian Studies and Metropolis Institute and principal author of the report, said “The central finding here is very clear: Antisemitism on Canadian campuses is neither isolated or episodic … it can reasonably be described as systemic. There’s no qualifiers for this antisemitism, there’s no adjectives, there’s no pretext for it.”
In a joint statement, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, B’nai Brith Canada, and the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center said “We call on university leaders and governments at every level to carefully consider this report. The drivers of this hatred — including antizionism — are well known, and the time to act is now. We need concrete actions to protect Canadian students.”
Ironically, the head of Jewish Tulsa, Joe Roberts, left the U.S. for Canada in 2016 because he was worried about “democratic backsliding” under the Trump administration. He came back in 2023 after his local park was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti.
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