On 22 April 2026, Palestinian and Jewish Unity, Ontario Palestinian Rights Association, Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, Just Peace Advocates, and other key individuals submitted a complaint to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) outlining a group of charities promoting the Israeli military and potentially aiding and abetting illegal military recruiting. The complaint highlights 11 charities, all of which are schools / associated with schools, that promote the Israeli military to their school students. This type of activity is plainly in contravention of the CRA’s rules for registered charities that states plainly, “increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of Canada’s armed forces is charitable, but supporting the armed forces of another country is not.” Further, the Foreign Enlistment Act clearly states that recruiting or inducing any person or body of persons to enlist or accept any commission in a foreign military is illegal. At least two of these schools are being investigated by the Government of Quebec for allegedly hosting Israeli military personnel.

A detailed breakdown of the charities/schools is provided on our website, but in summary, we asked the CRA to investigate the following entities:

• Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto

• The Bnei Akiva Schools and the associated BAS Charitable Foundation

• The Toronto Heschel School and the associated Gesher Abraham charity

• Netivot HaTorah Day School

• TanenbaumCHAT and the associated Anne & Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto

• The Leo Baeck Day School

• Bialik Hebrew Day School

• Bialik High School and the associated JPPS-Bialik Foundation

• Herzliah High School and the associated United Talmud Torahs of Montreal

• Hebrew Academy Montreal

According to both domestic and international law, the CRA has the responsibility to ensure Canadian taxpayers are not subsidizing war crimes or assisting the aiding and abetting of recruiting for a foreign military. The CRA is aware of this fact, as they have revoked several charities, at least in part, due to their support of the Israeli military, including recently the Canadian Zionist Cultural Association.

With the report that 1500 Canadians are serving in the Israeli military and given the age of joining the military in most cases is shortly after the end of high school, this is indeed a serious concern. It is even more serious if Canadian taxpayers are subsidizing the illegal recruiting of these individuals through charity tax breaks. This taxpayer contribution is supporting individuals who serve in a military committing war crimes and genocide, making the individuals plausibly guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.