Commentary
The anti-Semitism crisis in Canada is measurable, escalating, and unfolding in plain sight.
In 2024, Canada recorded 6,219 anti-Semitic incidents, the highest number ever documented by B’nai Brith Canada since national tracking began in 1982. In 2025, that figure rose again to roughly 6,800 incidents, averaging over 18 anti-Semitic acts every day in a country that defines itself by tolerance and pluralism.
Synagogues have been firebombed. Jewish schools in Toronto have been shot at. Community centres have received bomb threats. Police have disrupted ISIS-inspired plots targeting Jewish institutions. Increasingly, many Jewish Canadians report feeling safer concealing their identity than expressing it openly.
This did not emerge from confusion or administrative delay. It reflects a broader institutional failure to confront anti-Semitism with the seriousness it demands….