Two employees at the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies — a Toronto-based non-profit human rights organization dedicated to Holocaust and antisemitism education — told CBC News that the centre’s educators who teach workshops and courses in schools have been instructed to report students who make comments critical of Israel to the organization.
CBC has agreed to keep the employees’ names confidential because of a potential risk to their employment.
Comments or questions referencing genocide or occupation of Palestinian people and “anything seen as critical of Israel at all” are to be reported to the organization, said one of the employees.
“The idea is to contact the school, inform the school they have an antisemitism problem and pressure the school to shut down the Palestinian support [by] accusing them of antisemitism, encouraging more pro-Zionist workshops or lessons,” they said.
Of note, the SWC conducts workshop in both secondary and primary schools.
Most white supremacists believe in ethnonationalism, like Germany for the Germans, England for the English, the USA for “white” people, etc and so the idea of a Jewish ethnostate which is where all the Jewish people should live - and not in the other countries where Jewish people “didn’t belong” - is extremely congruent with white supremacist ideology.
Like even the Nazis (and many within the British establishment of the era) saw a potential “solution” to the “Jewish problem” as the creation of a Jewish ethnostate.
It’s not necessarily some grand scheme of inciting blowback. It’s because the ideology of Israel, the very reason for its existence, is ethnonationalism. The idea of a “Jewish homeland” sits very comfortably beside the idea of “ethnically pure” states.