26 March 2007
Anti-Semitic activity in Canada has risen to its highest level in 25 years, according to a report by the organization B'nai B'rith. Almost two thirds of all incidents were categorized as harassment, one third as vandalism, and about 3 per cent as violence. Incidents include physical assaults, threatening phone calls, internet hate-mongering, synagogue vandalism, Shoah denial and the firebombing of a Montreal Jewish school. The overall number of anti-Semitic incidents is about 13 per cent higher than in 2005, double the tally of five years ago and four times higher than it was ten years ago. Nearly half of the reported events occurred in Toronto, which is home to nearly half of Canadian Jewry.
