Young resident decides to move to Israel - antisemitism in Burlington is more than she wants to tolerate

By Pepper Parr

February 27^th, 2026

BURLINGTON, ON

The University of Toronto has launched an investigation into its dean of dentistry after course materials he shared contained anti-Israeli and antisemitic imagery.

The two illustrations include a figure incorporating the Israeli flag bound tightly with rope that appears to be strangling a head sporting the colours of the Palestinian flag, and a cartoon of a man with a large, hooked nose swimming in a pool of money labelled “immunity.” The images accompanied lecture slides explaining the concepts of “strangulation theory” and “immunological modulation” in tooth health.

Anil Kishen, who was appointed head of the faculty of dentistry last year, has apologized, condemning “antisemitism and discrimination in all their forms” and has taken leave pending the outcome of the probe.

It is news like this that has resulted in the daughter of a Burlington resident who is Jewish deciding that she will move to Israel and continue her education there. Living in Burlington and having to put up with the slurs and the outright discrimination is not something she wants to tolerate any longer.

Security photograph of two young people putting hate literature up at City Hall

We are seeing more of this.

The Holocaust deniers are still amongst us.

There are still people who believe the Jews control the world’s economy.

The Jews are just another group of people with beliefs that they seem to have to pay a price to maintain.

They have a homeland which they paid a terrible price to get.

Yes, they have a Prime Minister who is at best an embarrassment to the democrats in Israel.

It is a complicated situation.

We need not make it worse with this insidious antisemitism