Normalizing Violent Antisemitism

"High levels of antisemitism have become a normalized feature in societies with large Jewish minorities."

"The data raise concern that a high level of antisemitic incidents is becoming a normalized reality." 

"The label of antisemitism is harsh and should be applied only after careful consideration and based on solid criteria."

"The peak in the number of incidents was recorded in the immediate aftermath of the 7 October attack, after which we began to see a downward trend. But unfortunately, that trend did not continue in 2025."  

Uriya Shavit, chief editor, Tel Aviv University annual report 

Survivor Saul Reichert, third from left, and his family light a candle at Toronto's Holocaust memorial event, April 13, 2026. (Credit: Shay Markowitz, for the Toronto Holocaust Museum)

"Offenders align with two main ideological orientations."

"They are predominantly Christian white supremacists or Muslims who apply antisemitism as a response to grievances about Middle Eastern political developments."

"[The] most worrying phenomenon [of the past year had been the] normalisation of antisemitic rhetoric in American political discourse."

"[US President Donald Trump had] tolerated, as no contemporary president has, deep-seated, loathsome antisemites within his camp, and continues to do so for cynical political reasons."

"The result is a new culture of everything-goes that is undermining the sense that Jews have had for decades that their future in America is secure."

Tel Aviv University annual report  

The attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach killed 15 members of the Jewish Community.  Getty Images

 

According to an annual study released on Monday, coinciding with the Shoah Day of Remembrance, 2025 distinguished itself as the most violent year in thirty, for Jews facing a resurgence of global antisemitism. The study pointed out that Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy and Australia had all posted notable increases in antisemitic incidents reported in 2025. In the United States and France, irrespective of notable physical attacks on Jewish targets, the report found the number of antisemitic incidents there declined.

 

Violence against Jews saw a spike beginning after the  Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack in southern Israel when an estimated 6 thousand terrorists flooded across from Gaza into Israel, followed by ordinary Palestinian citizens, all of whom committed barbaric, sadistic acts of rape, torture, burning entire families alive in their homes, slaughtering over a thousand civilians, foreign farm workers, children and the elderly, while taking infants, their parents and grandparents, women and men hostage into Gaza.

When Israel mobilized the Israel Defense Forces to enter Gaza to search for Hamas leaders, their operatives, and those of Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, all involved in the heinous bloodshed, the world -- initially shocked at the carnage committed in Israel -- turned against Israeli reprisal against the terrorists, despite the military doing its utmost to spare civilian lives through pre-strike alerts and organized population moves out of harm's way.

A sign reading "Jewish Lives Should Matter, Too" is seen at the floral tributes area outside Bondi Pavilion in Sydney on Dec. 18, 2025, to honour victims of the Bondi Beach shooting. The attack at Bondi Beach on Dec.14 was one of the deadliest in Australian history. Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP via Getty Images 

 

In Sydney, Australia, a Muslim father and son duo launched a deadly attack on Bondi Beach, killing 15 members of the Jewish community that had gathered in December to celebrate Hannukah. Two antisemitic attacks in the United States in Washington, D.C. and Colorado were mounted, while in Britain two people were murdered at a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, the most sacred day in Judaism's High Holy Days.

 

Tel Aviv University's Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, alongside the Irwin Cotler Institute for Democracy, Human Rights and Justice annually release their report on antisemitism, coinciding with Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day that serves as a national memorial for the six million Jewish children, women and men whose lives were systematically obliterated in a state mechanism deployed to destroy Europe's Jews. 

 

An increase in antisemitic attacks resulting in physical harm is tracked annually to produce each year's report. This report found that 2025 represented the deadliest year for such attacks since 1994, when a Jewish community centre in Argentina (Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina),was bombed, where 85 people died and over 300 were wounded. A suicide-bombing attributed to Islamic Jihad/Hezbollah, the Islamic State of Iran's proxy terrorist groups in Lebanon. 

 

Since 2023, the incidents of viral antisemitism have soared, in comparison to those committed in 2022 Incidents that range from physical violence and vandalism to verbal threats and harassment on social media are all tracked by researchers who produce the final report. The report relies on statistics based on reports from police, national authorities, and local Jewish communities.

 

In Canada alone, to cite one country in isolation from others, the number of incidents rose from 6,219 committed in 2024, to 6,800 in 2025, representing a number over three times steeper than in 2022 -- pre-October 7's Palestinian terrorist horde attacking Israeli farming communities and a nearby musical festival where over 370 young festival-goers, men and women were raped and murdered. 

Some might question why the report failed to address the phenomenon of mass protests on the streets of Europe and North America by Palestinian and Muslim groups that immediately began accusing Israel of 'genocide' in its terrorist-seeking foray into Gaza, where masked, keffiyeh-clad 'protesters' issued threats against Israel and harassed, hounded and threatened diaspora-citizen Jews. Where in Canada, synagogues, Jewish parochial schools, and private businesses owned by Jews were vandalized and shot up.  

 

Rabbi Yossi Friedman speaks to people gathering at a flower memorial by the Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, following Sunday’s shooting in Sydney, Australia. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

 

 

Providing Evidence of Violent Repression by Government a Criminal Offence in Tanzania

"The killings were pre-planned to target regions that are known to be politically active, those that are critics of the ruling party. "

"Following people to their homes and killing them amounts to a massacre."

Tanganyika Law Society President Boniface Mwabukusi

 

"People in the government are in shock... there's disbelief,"

"Nobody has the guts to talk... that's the sad part of it. But people do whisper."

"We really don't know what to do. Do we want more demos? No, because the youth are going to be executed again." 

"[Hassan's son, Abdul, has] a private militia and most of the people believe that's the one involved in the abductions from the beginning."

 "Why are you abducting a 20-year-old kid just because they criticized you? You're the president, for crying out loud!" 

Government official, unnamed for protection

 

"There's a very, very tiny cabal who is informing and influencing the president and running the country."

"It's unprecedented and very un-Tanzanian. [Everyone else] has been completely frozen out."

"The only explanation is deep-seated paranoia... and now it's out of control."

"[Those with power] know one tool... a very brutal, crude, authoritarian tool."

"What's clear is that Tanzania will never be the same again." 

Former presidential adviser

President Samia Suluhu Hassan was inaugurated on 3 November 2025 at Chamwino, Dodoma, following her re-election with 97.66% of the vote. Photo: Tanzaniainvest

 

Hundreds of young Tanzanian protesters have been massacred in the wake of the country's recent election. They were out protesting at the behest of the country's opposition party, reflecting a broad general consensus that the vote that gave President Samia Suluhu Hassan a massive win was rigged. In many areas of the country people were unable to cast their ballots. Internet had been shut down. Some candidates had been arrested and imprisoned. The unrest and resistance against the outcome of the election had spread across the country.

 

And everywhere there have been reports of extrajudicial killings, not only of those who have gone out to publicly and vehemently protest, but people who happen to be passersby caught in crossfires, or just people going about their business shot by police; a report of a woman in her car with her children having been shot dead, just one example. In other instances police arriving at the home of those they pinpoint as troublemakers, shot dead.

 

It speedily became generally acknowledged that a small, vociferous and threatening cabal around the president have taken control of government reaction to what has amounted to a popular uprising in the making. Of a population of around 70 million people, Tanzania is majority Christian, with a large minority Muslim population. President Hassan is the country's first Muslim president, purportedly elected on October 29 with 98 percent of the vote. 

 

Tanzanian authorities are facing growing concern over killings during crackdowns on protests surrounding last week's election   Still from video ABCNews

 

It took no time at all for the protests against the election results, and charges of  repression to surface. The country's politicians are reputed to be in shock over the violence that has ensued, with claims surfacing that at least a thousand people have been killed. Many of those politicians, while stunned with disbelief, are silent in the face of what appears to be control grasped by hardliners in support of the new president.

 

Bloody images of the dead have appeared on social media; their ubiquity spurring even wider protests. While President Samia Suluhu Hassan is now officially Tanzania's new leader, the reality also is that key opposition leaders were either disqualified from running or were incarcerated, keeping them out of contention. Protests were speedily crushed while communication was cut off, given a five-day Internet blackout. 

 

The United Nations human rights head Volker Turk announced on Tuesday that: "There are ... disturbing reports that security forces have been seen removing bodies from streets and hospitals and taking them to undisclosed locations in an apparent attempt to conceal evidence". 

  

Demonstrations in Dar es Salaam. Photo: Vellum

 

A Tanzanian government senior official, fearing for his life, should his name be attached to any explanatory revelations given to the Western press, spoke on condition that his name be withheld. He spoke of two suspected sites of mass graves located near Dar es Salaam, and at Kondo and Mabwepande. The levers of power and repression appears to be in total control of a group supporting President Hassan, confirmed those in government willing to speak under cover.

 

Eyewitnesses came forward discreetly to describe their experiences in seeing people shot at point-blank range by police and armed men otherwise unidentified. A bystander was shot in the head by a soldier on election day in Dar es Salaam. Three people were lined up and shot "five or six times" in the legs by police the following day, one of the eyewitnesses said, unburdening himself of a nightmare experience.

 

Independence day, on December 9 has been highlighted by the country's political opposition for country-wide protests.  President Hassan's son Abdul Halim Hafidh Ameir, her private secretary Waziri Salum, head of the intelligence service Suleiman Abubakar Mombo, and a member of the East African parliament, Angela Kizigha, comprise the principals surrounding and supporting the president, according to discreet government sources.  

 

Funeral for an opposition youth leader killed during election protests   AFP

 

"There is extreme fear for everyone."

"If it wasn’t for the massive efforts of brave activists sending videos to us, and the people recording them on their phones, the world would have no idea of the scale of the killings."

Kenyan activist Mwanse Ahmed 

 

"Avoid sharing images or videos that are disturbing or demeaning to someone’s dignity."

"Doing so is a criminal offense."

Tanzanian Police 

Canadian Justice for Criminal Acts Perpetrated by Indigenous People

"The offender repeatedly had sexual intercourse with her knowing that he held the power in the situation not only because of their age difference but also because he had inflicted physical harm on her and psychological terror to ensure that she would comply."

"But for his Gladue factors [leniency in sentences for those with Aboriginal backgrounds], I would have imposed the sentence sought by the Crown." 

"The offender's life has been directly influenced by many of the Gladue factors. He has existed for extended periods of time in his life in a state of severe poverty over homelessness, he is under-educated, he has struggled with severe addiction issues and as a child was taken from his family and placed in a foster care system where he was sexually abused and separated from his siblings."

"The racism he faced in his own family and in the outside world, no doubt impacted his views as to how others should be treated." 

Justice Jayne Williams 

A Calgary courthouse. Photo by Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press

 

This Calgary judge, in her legal wisdom delivering justice saw fit to take two years from a  ten-year sentence given a man who repeatedly sexually assaulted a girl who was 12 years old when they met, while he was 25. He terrorized the girl into submission, yet because the man has an Indigenous background, of Cree heritage, he is deemed to qualify for a reduced sentence under Canadian law. Known to the court as RJM, the man met the young girl on  the social media site Instagram. 

 

He assaulted and threatened to kill his victim on many occasions in a period of time between spring and the fall of 2023. Before RJM was arrested in September 2023, he had led police on a wild vehicular chase. He had threatened the  girl and her mother even when he was securely locked into a prison cell. His lawyer saw fit to argue for a six-year sentence for her client, while the Crown recommended a ten-year prison term.

 

In Canadian law, the Supreme Court of Canada set out the Gladue principles requiring sentencing judges to consider what is called the 'unique circumstances' of criminal offenders with Indigenous backgrounds. This was meant to address the over-representation in Canada's courts and prisons of Indigenous people. The decision for reduced sentence was made despite that the court was aware of the gravity of the treatment the young girl was exposed to.

 

The girl was sexually assaulted multiple times, dragged by her hair, punched in the face. "On another occasion he drove her out of the city and left her on the side of the road to walk back. He eventually returned for her." He threatened to kill the girl's mother and her cat, "specifically telling A.B. she was a 'dead slut' and that her mother A.C. was 'going to get hit too'. He would put a bullet in her head, and there was a bomb to total A.B.'s mother's car." Indeed, a makeshift nail bomb was placed under A.C.'s car. She ran over it and it exploded.   

"He took no steps to substantiate her age initially, but on [Sept. 2, 3030] the offender took a photograph of A.B.'s passwords and accessed her Calgary Board of Education account. It was on this date that he learned she  was 13."

"They began to argue about infidelity. He brandished a knife pointing it at A.B. and telling her he was going to kill her He also searched her phone confirming she was not cheating."

"[Once he learned her true age, RJM] confronted her via  text message, about lying. His texts divulge his awareness that her actual age resulted in 'a whole new level of consequences'." 

"[He made a] conscious decision to continue the relationship despite his receipt of this new information. He speaks to A.B. in possessive terms stating, 'better or worse you belong to me', 'that p--sy is mine and that bulls--t sexy little attitude', 'delete every message I ever send to you at the end of the night'."

Justice Jayne Williams  

Soon after RJM and the girl met online, they agreed to meet in person. "Between this first meeting and his arrest in September they met almost every second day" and regularly had sexual intercourse. A.B. informed the man that she was 16 year of age. He admitted to the court that he was violent with her while the girl was still 12 years old, while they drove about in his car. After he learned her true age his texts "include a mix of disbelief that she is so young and a decision to sexually make the most of her age. There is a progression detailed in the [agreed statement of facts] from him being disturbed by her age to him being aroused by it".

 

Calgary police were called by one of the girl's friends, "as a result of aggressive text messages the offender sent to A.B. while her friend was present. These texts included the offender calling A.B. a 'f--king rat', f--king piece of s--t, and 'f-king whore'. He threatened to shoot up and burn down her mother's home and that of her friend. He threatened to kill her mother and her friend, sending a video of himself holding a blowtorch and a video showing he was outside A.B.'s mother's residence." When police located him, he turned and fled. 

 

When police searched his backpack during the arrest they found a manilla folder. "The folder had 'BOOM FOLDER' written on the front and 'Munitions Supply Folder, Burials, Advanced Techniques' written on its back. Documents found inside the folder held details for explosives production, modified ammunition, improvised firearms, and techniques on properly digging a grave." A butane torch, rifle cleaning kit, hatchet, pickaxe, sledgehammer and knife were found on a further search of RJM's car.

 

A Calgary police cruiser is pictured. Postmedia file

"The texts begin with the following sentiments; 'I'm in shock', 'I'm seriously disturbed right now like feel really scared', 'I can get labelled after a pedophile' and progress to 'I might as well earn these potential life-changing charges'." 

"[RJM] was involved in a sexual relationship with a teenager for over three months. He was aware she was 13 for ten days. His conduct was intentional over the course of that ten days and the sexual acts were continual."

"This was not a temporary lapse of judgment on his part. In fact, his arousal having learned that A.B. was 13 resulted in the sexual acts becoming more egregious over the course of that ten days."

Justice Jayne Williams 

Placement of Homeless Shelters in Urban Toronto

629 Adelaide St. W., which Toronto plans to use as a 50-bed emergency shelter with estimated operating and leasing costs of $45 million over 10 years. It is close to St. Mary’s Catholic Elementary School. Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post

"If you're wondering what it's like to live in Toronto..."

"[Instead of] assuring the neighbourhood their concerns would be heard [Mayor Olivia Chow] bemoaned the fact that the neigbourhood had been tipped off! These things are supposed to be secret, so no one can oppose them!"

"Our community is frustrated by the complete lack of communication with the city."

"We would like to have our concerns heard and know the risks involved. What we have right now, through, is crickets."

"Our community understands the need for homeless shelters. This is not up for debate. It is important, however, that when choosing the site for a new shelter, it has to work for both the residents of the community where it is located, and the people who will be using the shelter."

Jennifer Hedger, Scarborough, Ontario

"People are demanding to be heard."

"They think it's incredibly unfair that they are having this decision undemocratically forced on them."

"They're not saying don't do this. What they're saying is give us a seat at the table."

"They're concerned about safety."

Kevin Vuong, Area Member of Parliament

Montreal’s École Victor-Rousselot is just down the street from Maison Benoit Labre transitional housing and inhalation centre. Photo by John Mahoney/MONTREAL GAZETTE

In the larger of Canadian cities such as Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Ottawa the demand for beds has soared owing to a skyrocketing increase in immigrants seeking refugee status. Just as their presence has become a weight on all social services while their sheer numbers impact deleteriously on the need to focus on the plight of Canadians who have fallen on hard times, the need to further provide illegal migrants invoking refugee haven in Canada has placed unsupportable stress on already-overworked and inadequate homeless shelters. 

In 2024, a quarter of a million people entered Canada to apply for refugee status, some 20 times the number for all of 2014. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) released The Shelter Safety Study revealing, among other issues that the annual number of incidents of interpersonal violence taking place in Toronto shelters had increased by 293 percent between 2011 and 2021, at a time when daily service users increased by 66 percent. In addition, incidents including violence rose from about 2,000 per year in 2011 to 10,000 in 2021.

An estimated half of the unhoused population in Toronto struggles with a substance use disorder, compelling reason for the city to be upfront with residents and business owners on where planning for shelter placements are set for, before they become a fait accompli, to be absolutely fair to  nearby residents who learn to their dismay through a grapevine, and not consultation or official statements that their neighbourhoods are slated to host homeless shelters ... and all too often in close proximity to schools.

Toronto’s 25 Augusta Ave. St. Felix Respite Centre gained international attention when a mother of three posted videos of the open drug use and graphic violence her young family was witness to. Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post

A troubling lack of transparency and the city's documented inability to follow through on its commitment to see that the facilities are well managed and don't present as a danger to residents makes residents extremely and understandably upset, sending them in droves to confront city officials, demanding accountability. The unsettling situation isn't Toronto's alone. Hundreds of residents gathered at Richmond, British Columbia's city hall protesting a proposed injection site they were told nothing about, to be placed in their neighbourhood.

In Montreal, a coalition came together when parents, residents and businesses found themselves blindsided with news of a building under construction meant to be used as a shelter with a supervised injection component. Located a mere few metres from a fenced-in park used for recesses and lunch breaks by an adjacent elementary school.

 

In November 2024, Kanata residents in Ottawa’s west end protested plans to erect “sprung structures” — giant platformed tents — at a park-and-ride lot. Photo by Ashley Fraser/Postmedia News

The Ottawa suburb of Kanata saw protests against the plan by the city to erect a series of sprung structures" (giant platformed tents) at a local commuter park-and-ride for the purpose of accommodating asylum seekers. Residents complained that no community consultation had taken place prior to the announcement. In Peterborough, Ontario the Police Chief stated his force would no longer encourage drug users to relocate to the injection site; henceforth anyone caught using illicit substances outside of the site would be subject to search, their drugs seized, and they possible arrests.

In Scarborough, east Toronto, residents concerned of safety learned through a tip-off, that a respite centre was meant to be placed on one side of the St.Mary's Catholic Elementary School, and a supervised injection site would be placed on the other side of the school. A situation that saw concentrated drug activity in the immediate area. "We see it already. We find needles and condoms at the school", complained one outraged parent. 

A representative of the Catholic school board who supervised three city schools stated: "There's no amount of community liaison you can do with these centres that stops the problems -- which is what children see". School custodians had to be trained to deal with needles, condoms and human waste. No choice was left eventually but to erect massive security fences. "The school is starting to look like a prison -- not super-max but definitely medium security."

Professor Michael MacKenzie whose work at McGill University in psychiatry and pediatrics studies "the trauma-informed treatment of mental health and addictions". He wrote a column titled "A case study on how not to build community trust", setting the record straight on what he and his neighbours close to a site had been experiencing: groups of people injecting drugs, assaults, a man with his pants down masturbating in front of a neighbour's window in broad daylight, and sex acts on the sidewalk.

A supervised injection site opened in 2017 near St. Mary’s Catholic Elementary School in Toronto, forcing the board to train staff to deal with needles, condoms and human waste and, eventually, erect tall security fences. Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post

"You think it's safe when a bullet comes flying out of one of these sites in Toronto to kill a mother?"

"You think it's safe to have people using heroin and crack and cocaine next to a playground?"

"[Supervised injection sites] They're drug dens. And they've made everything worse everywhere they've been done."

Leader of the Parliamentary opposition Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre

 

Jihad By Any Means

"Somebody was just trying to let this young student trustee out to go to the bathroom, they pushed down the security guard and they grabbed the door."

"They stormed the room. The staff that was standing up there got knocked down, and another was pushed down, trampled all over. One lady she just came -- it was like at a wrestling match -- she ran past everybody and came straight for me. It was horrible."

"There were trustees who were terrified. Some sitting there frozen. Trustees were saying this isn't right, they were afraid."

"In my21 years as a trustee, we've had challenging situations in our boardroom but we've never had anything like this, when staff and trustees are put in a place where they are fearful to the point where people are assaulted." 

"These constant attacks on school board trustees for doing our job and standing up for students has to stop."

David Green, chair, Peel District School Board 

Videos taken from outside the Peel school board meeting show demonstrators surging past security, pushing a large guard into the room. Photo by palestinepdsb /Instagram

"Students across PDSB organized to demand the mic at the monthly PDSB meetings, because their requested delegation was denied. Students had demands for PDSB, they asked the board to listen, but over 60+ community members and students were neglected."

"As the crowd got louder to make sure we are placed on the agenda the entire board walked out on us and decided to proceed their meeting in their own private space."

"The community decided to continue their demand to be heard, so we moved toward their meeting room. The entire board ran away and had security come in to push us out."

"We as a community didn't back down, we stood strongly, and we will continue to be not backed down."

Instagram account version of events from one of the rioters

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Ontario's Peel region just outside Greater Toronto broke up a school board meeting, effectively drowning out elected trustees by chanting, later storming past security into a locked room where the meeting was reconvened by trustees. The Peel School Board chair overheard someone in the raucous crowd urging the group: "They're in that room, bang it down, kick it down if you have to".

 

The Peel District School Board is headquartered in Mississauga, just west of Toronto, where the Muslim population represents about 12% of the population, the second-highest group after Christians at 60%. Before the trustees' board meeting took place, a social media account urged "students, parents and concerned community members" to attend the "call to action", asking people to "bring your flags, keffiyehs, and signs".

 

 

The meeting was broadcast live online by the board, a feed that came to a halt when chaos invaded the meeting. There was an ordinary start, the meeting called to order and the board chair asked people to stand for an Indigenous land acknowledgement and the playing of Canada's national anthem. Most of those in the public gallery stood quietly for the land acknowledgement, but sat when the national anthem began. 

Fifteen minutes into the meeting an audience member began calling out to be recognized to speak and the crowd applauded, many in the gallery standing, waving flags and signs. "I'm going to ask you, please do not disturb the meeting. If you have something to say, I'll stay back and we'll have a conversation", after the meeting, said the board chair, to continued shouting. As the meeting attempted to continue, shouts and calls grew, from the gallery: "Let them speak, let them speak", was chanted.

Mr. Green turned to the trustees explaining that representatives of a group had asked to speak and were informed of the process for delegations from the public to speak to the board. After which there was no response and he assumed the matter was laid to rest. Twenty minutes later, chanting drowned out the trustees while Mr. Green five times asked for order from the gallery. Failing that, he called a recess and trustees filed out as the crowd jeered and chanted "Free, free Palestine".

The meeting was reconvened in a smaller, private conference room, and the doors locked. For 20 minutes the board continued its agenda until knocking began at the door. Minutes later knocking became loud pounding. "If they're banging on the door that hard, it means they got past security. My intention was to end the meeting as quick as possible and get staff and trustees upstairs into a secure area where they can be safe. That didn't happen", he explained later.

Finally a student trustee needed to use the bathroom. "A staff member was trying to open the door slightly so he could go out to go to the bathroom. They just rushed in the room", he said. Demonstrators -- most with their faces covered with keffiyehs -- a symbol of Palestinian nationalism -- surged past security, pushing a guard into the room. Police were not called. Mr. Green met later with some of the protest representatives, one of whom read off to him a statement of demands listed on his phone.

 

 

Demanding that the board issue statements declaring they stood with Palestinians in the current crisis, and calling to stop the 'genocide'. Another demand was that the board ensure no staff or student would be disciplined for defending or putting up Palestinian flags. "We're here in the business to educate kids, we don't get involved in this. We're not into politics", Mr. Green responded.

According to the Instagram post, the confrontation was "the first of many", yet to come. A spokesperson for Peel Regional Police responded that police had not been called to the board office when the protest occurred. A day later, police contacted the board only to be informed the situation had been handled by private security and therefore police involvement was not expected.