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Canadian survey finds antisemitism widespread among Jewish university students

A government-commissioned study reveals most respondents experienced or witnessed antisemitism on campus last year

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Pro-Israel demonstrators protest outside a pro-Palestinian encampment set up on McGill University's campus in Montreal in the spring of 2024. A new national report says a vast majority of Jewish students have experienced or witnessed antisemitism on campus. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press)

What this story says

  • A government-commissioned survey of Jewish university students in Canada found most respondents experienced or witnessed antisemitism on campus last year.
  • The right-rated report led on the claim that antisemitism had become "normalized" at Canadian universities.
  • No centre-rated outlet published an account of the survey, though it was reported by three left-rated and one right-rated outlet.
  • The reports disagreed on the exact proportion of students affected, with one outlet stating nearly all respondents had experienced antisemitism.

Who covered it

Left 51%(23)Centre 25%(11)Right 24%(11)

Percentages are shares of the 45 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 6 of the 51 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

48/100

Craft

54/100

Hype

30/100

51 sources · methodology

A survey commissioned by the Canadian government found that antisemitism is widespread among Jewish university students. The study, conducted late last year, asked respondents about their experiences on campus. The majority reported either witnessing or directly experiencing antisemitic incidents during the previous year.

The survey was referenced in reports from three left-rated outlets and one right-rated outlet. The right-rated digest described antisemitism as a "persistent and, at some Canadian postsecondary institutions, normalized feature of campus life." The left-rated digests did not use the word "normalized."

Disagreement on the scale of antisemitism

The right-rated digest reported that nearly all Jewish students surveyed had experienced or witnessed at least one antisemitic incident in the previous year. The left-rated digests did not specify a proportion, stating only that the vast majority of respondents had done so.

What the coverage left out

No centre-rated outlet published an account of the survey. None of the digests below mention whether the survey asked respondents to specify the nature or frequency of the antisemitic incidents they experienced or witnessed. The unrated digest included a statement linking antisemitism on campuses to broader attacks on Jewish institutions, but this was not carried by any rated outlet.

Coverage settled. We checked this 8 times and stopped on 11 Aug 2026, 17:31. The figures above are what it finished at.

How other outlets pictured it

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University of Ottawa professor Cary Kogan of the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics (NECA) speaks at a news conference on a national study documenting antisemitism at Canadian universities and colleges in Ottawa on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

23 rated outlets

  • The three left-rated digests led on the finding that the vast majority of Jewish students had experienced or witnessed antisemitism on campus. None of the digests mentioned the word "normalized" or specified a proportion of respondents affected. All three carried the same wording: "the vast majority of Jewish students who responded to a government-commissioned survey late last year said they had experienced or witnessed antisemitism on campus."

Centre

11 rated outlets

  • Centre-rated outlets led on the survey’s finding that most Jewish university students in Canada reported experiencing or witnessing antisemitism. All ten reports carried the figure that over two-thirds of respondents said their university does not take antisemitism seriously. Nine digests and the CTV News article included that the survey was commissioned by the last special envoy on antisemitism before the role was terminated.
  • The CTV News report and The Globe & Mail digest noted that a fifth of respondents reported physical violence directed at Jews on campus. CTV News also specified the survey was conducted in November and December 2025, involved 900 students, and was overseen by the Association for Canadian Studies. Only CTV News mentioned the call from Jewish academics for universities to enforce conduct codes and record discrimination data.
  • None of the centre-rated digests included the number of survey respondents or the months the survey was conducted. The Globe & Mail digest did not mention the termination of the special envoy role, and no digest quoted the academics’ call for policy changes.

Right

11 rated outlets

  • The right-rated digest led on the claim that antisemitism had become "normalized" at Canadian colleges. It also stated that nearly all Jewish students surveyed had experienced or witnessed antisemitism in the previous year. The digest described antisemitism as a "persistent" feature of campus life.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Canadian survey finds antisemitism widespread among Jewish university…?
Of the 45 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 51% are rated left, 25% are rated centre, 24% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 51. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Canadian survey finds antisemitism widespread among Jewish university… left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 45 rated outlets on this story, 51% are rated left, 25% are rated centre, 24% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Canadian survey finds antisemitism widespread among Jewish university… biased?
Canadian survey finds antisemitism widespread among Jewish university students is one event reported by 51 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which outlets covered Canadian survey finds antisemitism widespread among Jewish university…?
51 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What did the Canadian survey of Jewish university students find?
The survey found that the vast majority of Jewish university students in Canada reported experiencing or witnessing antisemitism on campus last year. The right-rated report stated nearly all respondents had done so, while left-rated reports did not specify a proportion.
Which outlets reported on the survey?
Three left-rated outlets and one right-rated outlet published digests of the survey. No centre-rated outlet covered the story, and none of the reports were the outlets' own full articles.
Did the reports agree on how widespread antisemitism was?
The reports disagreed on the exact scale. The right-rated digest stated nearly all Jewish students surveyed had experienced or witnessed antisemitism, while the left-rated digests said only that the vast majority had done so.

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