From: The Jerusalem Post December 23, 2024
Canada - antisemitism skyrockets

1. 'Something's rotten in the state of Canada,' as antisemitism skyrockets - editorial
2. If Jews aren’t safe in Canada, they won’t be safe anywhere.

Something is rotten in Canada, not just the crumbling coalition government.

Some 400,000 Jews – the fourth-largest Jewish population center in the world after Israel, the US, and France – live in the beautiful, spacious country that takes pride in its heritage of tolerance and pluralism. Now, this population is under attack.

B’nai Brith Canada (BBC) saw a record high of 5,791 antisemitic incidents in 2023 a 109% increase from years prior

As Post columnist David Weinberg wrote on Friday, Shimon Koffler Fogel, the outgoing CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) the leading Canadian Jewish community advocacy agency told the committee that since Hamas’s October 7 massacre and Israel’s retaliation in Gaza,

Toronto:
there has been a 93% rise in hate crimes in Toronto, nearly half of them directed at the Jewish community. 

shots have been fired on three different occasions at Bais Chaya, a Jewish girls’ school, with the most recent incident occurring on Friday night.

Vancouver:
In Vancouver, reports of antisemitism increased by 62% in 2023 over 2022 marking a 70% rise after October 7

Montreal:
In Montreal, antisemitic incidents rose by 250%.

assailants last week firebombed Congregation Beth Tikvah, a modern Orthodox synagogue in the Montreal suburb of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, for the second time in just over a year.

“This is a terrifying reminder that Montreal is increasingly unsafe for Jewish people,” the synagogue’s cantor, Henry Topas, said in a statement.