Vancouver, BC – North Shore News has reported an incident of antisemitic cyberbullying at a West Vancouver school.
A Jewish teenager was sent various abusive text messages referencing the Holocaust, telling the boy he would “burn u like ur ancestors” and threatening to “beat u so hard ur gonna go back to auschwitz”, also taunting him with a message saying “all your ancestors live in ashes in the showers”.
The boy’s father, Eduard Bruk, told North Shore News that the comments were prompted by his son posting a photograph of himself on Instagram. The boy was born in Israel, is a “accomplished” football player, and had recently taken part in a fundraising event for Syrian refugees.
Mr Bruk told the local news outlet that he was dissatisfied with the disciplinary procedures at the school, saying that only one boy had apologised to his son so far and even expressing doubts as to whether the parents of both boys had been contacted. The lack of severity with which the incident appears to have been treated mirrors one which we reported last month, in which a physical attack was not acknowledged by the school as having been motivated by antisemitism, and instead was treated as simple case of playground bullying.