Last week, Pe’er Krut wrote in this paper about an assembly at a Catholic high school outside Toronto in which students were subjected to a rant that presented a very one-sided view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This was bad enough because there was no opportunity for alternate perspectives to be presented.

But now adding insult to injury, the Toronto District School Board has voted to incorporate the concept of anti-Palestinian racism (APR) within its broader anti-discrimination strategy, which has the potential to shut down another avenue for debate and discussion within the education system.