Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada, including vandalism and harassment targeting Jews, reached a record high in 2025, Jewish service organization B’nai Brith said.
At a news conference on Parliament Hill April 27, B’nai Brith said it recorded 6,800 anti-Semitic incidents across Canada in 2025, a 9.3 percent increase from the previous year and a 145.6 percent jump from 2022.
The organization described the trend as a worsening “national crisis.”
“Though the figures contained in the 2025 audit are astonishing, we cannot allow anti-Semitism to be rendered into mere statistics that we grow numb to,” said Richard Robertson, director of research and advocacy at B’nai Brith.
“A Hakenkreuz [swastika] drawn in a schoolyard is not just an incident of vandalism. It is a diabolical act of hate that leaves Jewish children afraid to go to school, and an assault on a Jewish man in a park in front of his children … is an incident that creates generational trauma and leaves an entire cohort of society questioning if they are safe to remain in this country.”…