The more the antisemitism and anti-Israeli hate in medical school grew, the more Gill Kazevman censored his true self. “I was no longer Gill, the Israeli, Hebrew-speaking medical student,” Kazevman writes in a personal essay in the Canadian Medical Education Journal. “I was now Gill, who had completed his undergraduate degree in New Brunswick, and whose accent sounded somewhat French. I stopped wearing identifiable Jewish accessories in academic settings. I stopped speaking Hebrew in public,” he wrote. “I went into hiding.” Now a full-fledged family doctor and hospitalist, Kazevman immigrated, alone, to Canada from Israel in 2012 at age 22, “full of hope” of finding a welcoming, inclusive and supportive environment. But when he applied to medical school in 2017, and circulated his CV to physician mentors, “their most consistent feedback was, ‘Do not mention anything relating to Israel.’” Scrubbed from his CV was any mention of his volunteer work with an Israel ambulance service. Gone was the name of his high school “to minimize the chance of identifying the country in which I went to school.” With every erased line, “I felt as if I was tearing off a small piece of myself.” Now 34, Kazevman became a Canadian citizen in 2022. The National Post’s Sharon Kirkey spoke with the young doctor about his experience with antisemitism in Canadian medicine after starting his medical training at the University of Toronto in 2018. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.