Zionists live in a parallel universe. Genocidal Jewish supremacists rejoice that schools shuttle students to celebrate a lawless foreign state while most Canadians are scandalized when they learn their taxes subsidize this behaviour.
On Thursday Honest Reporting Canada gloated about a front-page picture in the Montreal Gazette and the tag noting “Youth from Jewish day schools danced alongside politicians as thousands flocked to Place du Canada yesterday for Israel Independence Day.” The aggressively anti-Palestinian registered charity noted, “Today’s @mtlgazette cover captures Montreal’s Jewish youth celebrating Israel’s Independence Day, with a striking backdrop of Israeli flags alongside the TRUE Iranian flag. 🇮🇱 ❤️”
What the Jewish supremacist fanatics are celebrating ought to be a major scandal. About 30 school buses lined the streets near Wednesday’s rally to mark 78 years of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. A thousand students were likely bused in from the city’s private Jewish schools to spend the day promoting a state that’s murdered tens of thousands of children recently.
In fact, one reason I believe Montreal’s ‘Israel independence’ day celebration always seems to be held on a weekday is to guarantee turnout from the city’s many private Jewish schools. With Quebec’s education ministry offering unique subsidies for private schools, notes B’nai Brith, “Some 7,000 [Montreal] children attend Jewish day schools, over 50% of the total Jewish school age population, an extremely high percentage for North American cities.”
In effect, Quebeckers are heavily subsidizing the indoctrination of children to promote a foreign country’s genocide and apartheid. In February La Presse published an investigation detailing Israeli military involvement with two Montreal Jewish schools. According to that outlet, Herzliah and Bialik schools have had at least 14 different visits from active or former Israeli soldiers since October 2023. Some of the visits simulated Israeli military training.
According to La Presse, the two schools received $8 million from Quebec’s ministry of education in 2024. Not reported by La Presse, they also receive millions of dollars more in subsidy as registered charities or through donations from the taxpayer subsidized Combined Jewish Appeal Montreal (CJA has about $70 million in annual revenue while its associate Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal has a whopping $2.7 billion in assets).
Following on from the mini political scandal that erupted over the La Presse report, a group of civil society organizations, including Just Peace Advocates, Palestinian and Jewish Unity, Ontario Palestinian Rights Association and the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute sent the CRA a 60-page submission about eleven different Jewish schools. This week’s submission provides evidence that Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto, Bnei Akiva Schools, B.A.S. Charitable Foundation, GESHER ABRAHAM, Netivot HaTorah Day School, ANNE & MAX TANENBAUM COMMUNITY HEBREW ACADEMY OF TORONTO, The Leo Baeck Day School’s Canadian, Bialik Hebrew Day School, JPPS-Bialik Foundation, UNITED TALMUD TORAHS OF MONTREAL and Hebrew Academy Montreal, support the Israeli military in violation of CRA rules for registered charities.
The report’s section on Toronto’s Bialik Hebrew Day School says it “promotes support for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) through various school activities, such as organizing fundraisers for IDF-related organizations, hosting performances by Israeli military bands, and facilitating interactions between students and visiting IDF soldiers. ‘Its website notes, ‘Tzedakah programs such as Shai Le’chayal help students feel a sense of responsibility to the Israeli community by sending gifts to Israeli soldiers. Similarly, having the opportunity to interact with IDF Band soldiers, who visit to perform for the school, reinforces these feelings.’”
A significant proportion of the graduates of Bnei Akiva Schools join the Israeli military. A parent told the Canadian Jewish News “a quarter of the class” of a recent year in the male stream joined the IOF while a 2023 issue of a school magazine states: “we proudly attest that … over 220 of our graduates have served in the IDF and Sherut Leumi [national service].”
The school hosts a slew of initiatives to promote a lawless genocidal state’s armed forces. They organize “army nights”, fundraise for former classmates serving in the military and Israeli soldiers regularly speak to students.
Not only are the eleven schools defying CRA rules by assisting a foreign military, they may also be violating the Foreign Enlistment Act. In their article two months ago La Presse quoted academic Yakov Rabkin suggesting the schools may be violating the Foreign Enlistment Act, which criminalizes “inducing” Canadians to join another country’s military. The submission to the CRA also raises this matter and was sent to Attorney General Sean Fraser to pursue. It notes, “with the report that 1500 Canadians are serving in the IDF and given the age of joining the military in most cases is shortly after the end of high school, this is indeed a serious concern. It is even more serious if Canadian taxpayers are subsidizing the illegal recruiting of these individuals through charity tax breaks. This taxpayer contribution is supporting individuals who serve in a military committing war crimes and genocide, making the individuals plausibly guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
The CRA must audit the above-mentioned schools for possibly violating charity rules. The police should also investigate whether anyone working at these places of learning should be brought up on criminal charges.
There’s something seriously wrong with the Canadian legal system and the pro-Israel community when people boast about publicly financed schools sending kids to celebrate a faraway genocidal, apartheid, state.
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