A trustee at the Toronto District School Board said she is now launching a complete investigation into anti-Israel programs in public high schools, as a result of information obtained by the Jewish Tribune (Canada).
 
It appears that a new and serious development in the campaign to vilify Israel is infiltrating public high schools in Ontario through the use of virulent anti-Israel propaganda – labelling Israel as an apartheid state and challenging its legitimacy.
 
For several months, a group called High Schools Against Israeli Apartheid (HAIA) has been holding meetings in the University of Toronto’s OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) building. In fact, the details of a meeting to be held in December were placed on the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid web site.
 
When a reporter for the Jewish Tribune arrived, the gentleman at the information desk claimed no knowledge of any such event. However, a number of people showed up in the lobby, but only a few were quietly led to one of the many meeting rooms on another floor.
 
A group of young women in their late teens or 20s, when approached as to whether they know anything about a HAIA meeting, sarcastically responded that they were making wedding plans and didn’t appreciate the interruption.

Irene Atkinson, a Toronto District School Board trustee, was shocked by the allegations made by Adelman and found them hard to believe.

Atkinson is investigating the situation at the Student School, as well as the mystery surrounding HAIA and the possibility that some public school teachers may be abusing their positions for political purposes.

(Source: Jewish Tribune)