The report said post\u002Dsecondary institutions were \u0027significant breeding grounds for antisemitism\u0027 with Jewish students reporting vandalism and threats of…
The annual audit by Jewish advocacy group B’nai Brith found there were 2,799 anti-Jewish hate crimes, including beatings, vandalism of synagogues and swastikas in schools.
In another, an employee at an Ontario liquor store was assaulted by a customer who called him a “dirty f—king Jew.”The report found there was a surge in anti-Jewish hate crimes last May coinciding with escalating violence in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. Jewish pro-Israel demonstrators were beaten, had rocks thrown at them and were spat on.Article content
He told a press conference in Ottawa there was a “surge” in antisemitic incidents on university campuses. B’nai Brith, which verifies incidents, found that some Jewish candidates in the federal election, including Montreal-based Liberal MP Anthony Housefather, had their posters daubed with swastikas.Advertisement 5He said he personally witnessed people in a car driving down a busy street in his constituency “screaming insults” out the windows including “kill the Jews, kill the Jews.”
The most antisemitic incidents occurred in Quebec last year, which saw 828 incidents last year, up from 686 in 2020.
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