On March 5, 2026, the National Post reported:
A Jewish student in Halifax, N.S., has been forced to study online after his school failed to stop repeated antisemitic harassment, his mother says. Aviva Rubin-Schneider said her 15-year-old son, Joseph, was targeted for years by classmates at Park West School. He found swastika graffiti in the bathroom and classmates called him “Jewseph” and “Jewboy” and performed the Nazi salute at him in hallways, she said. In the wake of Hamas’s invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the situation got worse. In January 2024, several students allegedly physically assaulted Joseph on school grounds.