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Zuhra Abawi, Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream), Faculty of Education, York University, Canada

People studying to become teachers speak about Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism in Ontario schools

The rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian racism is playing out in Ontario schools, widely influenced by broader geopolitical and social issues.

Although Muslims are the fastest growing religious minority in Canada, schools are often sites of both forms of racism.

While we acknowledge that Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism are two distinct forms of oppression, they often overlap and intersect to produce racial discrimination and violence, such as surveillance and censorship.

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