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EXCLUSIVE: Secret $70K training encourages teachers to support protests

Hamilton school board cites “danger to safety or health” to block scrutiny of taxpayer-funded session which accuses the media of exaggerating “so-called jihadi terrorism”

Melanie Bennet
Apr 16, 2026
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Source: HWDSB, McMaster University

Teachers were instructed to “sit in the discomfort,” told that raising the Palestinian flag is an “act of resistance,” and encouraged to support student walkouts as a “protected right,” according to a leaked training transcript obtained by Juno News.

The Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board refused to release the $70K Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism training session, warning that disclosure posed a “danger to safety or health.”

Juno News has obtained a full transcript of that session.

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1/ The Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board @HWDSB refused to release a $70k taxpayer funded anti-Palestinian racism training session, claiming disclosure would pose a “danger to safety or health.” Juno News obtained the full transcript. A thread.
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