Harmony Movement calls itself a “leading provider of diversity and equity training programs” in Canada. They provide educational programs for school staff, as well as for students and youth, receiving funding from the Government of Canada and institutions like TD to do so.

The group boasts that they “have worked in every province and territory across Canada and in 59 out of 60 English school boards.”

In May 2026, Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s former anti-Islamophobia czar, delivered a keynote address at Harmony Movement’s Educators Anti-Racism conference. Elghawaby, as noted previously by HonestReporting Canada, has devoted much of her social media to attacking Israel with falsehoods and spreading content from anti-Israel radicals.

But rather than offering an opportunity to educate Canadians about racism, lecture materials from Harmony Movement appear to have an agenda to teach Anti-Palestinian Racism (APR), an agenda that seeks to demonize and silence those who challenge pro-Palestinian propaganda, and relied on contributors with possible links to the radical Muslim Brotherhood movement, which is designated as a terror organization by multiple countries.

A significant portion of their polished keynote materials is devoted to the “Palestine Exception.” They define this as “the phenomenon of normalizing the equation of speaking about Palestinian rights, history and culture with antisemitism or ‘terrorism’ in institutional or public spaces, including silencing voices critiquing the Israeli state’s violations of Palestinian human rights.”

This represents an attempt to prevent criticism of pro-Palestinian propaganda, while taking a swipe at Israel with no evidence at all. This statement promotes Anti-Palestinian Racism. As journalist Melanie Bennet, who first exposed the group’s ‘educational’ materials, wrote, this is “the claim that criticism of Palestinian activism or certain pro-Palestinian speech in schools equals anti-Muslim discrimination.”

As she also noted, the slides promote the treatment of “criticism of Islamist ideology, political movements, or doctrines as ‘racism.’”

Bennett wrote that this section “comes directly from York University’s Islamophobia Research Hub report, which Elghawaby endorsed while in office.” Blacklock’s Reporter alleged that not only did Elghawaby endorse it, but she also commissioned the report (with $80,000 in taxpayer funds) without disclosing that she had done so.

Bennett further highlighted that “the Hub’s steering committee includes Faisal Kutty, long criticized by counter-Islamism researchers for ties to Muslim Brotherhood-aligned networks.” In fact, in his 1999 article, “No Democracy without Risks,” he argued that “Although the Islamic movement, like any other, has its share of radicals, the Muslim Brotherhood has sought, and continues to seek, peaceful and democratic change,” and should be allowed to be part of the legitimate political scene. This is the same movement that directly finances terror, has deep links to Hamas, and assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981 after he signed a peace agreement with Israel, among other ‘non-peaceful’ actions.

Bennett further noted that “later slides cite the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) for 2026 online ‘Islamophobia’ data. CSOH’s North America Islamophobia lead, Niala Mohammad, previously served as Director of Policy & Strategy at the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), an organization repeatedly flagged by counter-extremism researchers for ideological proximity to Muslim Brotherhood networks.”

In the York University report section on “Documenting the ‘Palestine Exception,” readers are told about the rise of anti-Muslim incidents, from the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM). The NCCM has also been accused of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Other data in the report is drawn from the Legal Centre for Palestine, which has falsely accused the Canadian government of failing to prevent a genocide in Gaza.

Incidentally, the slides did not show that the Canadian government said that the total number of police-reported hate crimes targeting Muslims in 2023 was only 211. By contrast, there were 900 incidents against the Jewish population.

That the Harmony Movement is embedded in schools throughout Canada, teaching future generations of adults according to their ideology, is alarming and needs government scrutiny.

Given the documented spread of radical Islamism inside Canadian institutions, Harmony Movement’s presence inside Canadian schools is deeply problematic and requires critical coverage from the news media.