A record number of reported antisemitic incidents took place in Canada as a whole in 2025, but Quebec\u2019s numbers dipped significantly, says the annual B\u2019nai Brith Canada Audit of Antisemitic Incidents.<\/p>\n
While incidents increased by 215 percent in Quebec to 1,651 from 2022 to 2024, last year\u2019s numbers amounted to 573, a 65 percent decrease from the previous year. However, across Canada, 6,800 incidents took place, an increase of 9.3 percent, amounting to an average of more than 18 incidents a day compared to eight incidents a day in 2022.<\/p>\n
Research and advocacy director Richard Robertson told a press conference last week that the 573 incidents recorded in Quebec still \u201cattest to the unacceptable new baseline of antisemitism that has been established in Canada following the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack in Israel… [this is] higher than the total in 2022 and 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n
B\u2019nai Brith Canada CEO Simon Wolfe, accompanied by Robertson and Quebec regional director Paola Samuel, said the overall results \u201creflects the severity of the moment in which we presently find ourselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a testament to the lived realities of Jewish Canadians, the audit\u2019s findings are far more than just numbers on a page. Sadly, the data we are releasing confirms beyond a doubt what Jewish communities all across the country have come to know all too well. Antisemitism is not simply on the rise in Canada. It is becoming more normalized and more visible, and continues to represent an increasing threat to Canadian society.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robertson told the press conference he was reporting the results with \u201cgreat frustration and disgust.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2025, for the third straight year, a record number of antisemitic incidents were recorded in Canada,\u201d he said. \u201cThe sustained year-over-year increase in incidents of anti-Jewish hate make it clear that, when it comes to antisemitism, we have become a nation that tolerates disgraceful levels of hate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robertson characterized the overall situation as a \u201cnational crisis, and it is one that is getting worse.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe province of Ontario logged the highest yearly total ever registered by a single province or region since the inception of B\u2019nai B\u2019rith Canada\u2019s annual audit in 1982. More incidents, 3,194 to be exact, were recorded in Ontario in 2025 \u2014 more than all the incidents recorded in Canada in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robetson added that the most prevalent forms of antisemitism recorded in 2025 were \u201ccalling for or justifying the killing or harming of Jews; making false, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews; denying the occurrence, scope, or mechanisms of the Holocaust; using antisemitic symbols and images to characterize Israel, Israelis, or Zionists; and holding Jews collectively responsible for the actions of the state of Israel… A Jewish person that was harassed is not just a statistic. They are a person that was told that they should have been gassed along with their ancestors at Auschwitz.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robertson said \u201cthis is what happens when elected leaders at all levels fail to heed the warning signs, decline to act, and enable a permissive environment. If they are incapable of leading us through this crisis, we, as a collective, must compel change.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some of the incidents reported by The Suburban in 2025:<\/p>\n
\u2022 An Orthodox Jewish man was beaten in Parc-Extension in front of his children. Sergio Yanes Perciado had been remanded to the Pinel Institute for 30 days and was later found not to be criminally responsible for the assault.<\/p>\n
\u2022 A man made death threats to an observant Jewish man and others at the corner of St. Louis and Fraser streets in St. Laurent. \u201dYour time will come!\u201d says a man wearing a keffiyeh in a video circulating on social media. \u201cYou\u2019re a f–king pig! You understand me? I\u2019m just waiting for the king! F–king monkeys! There is one king \u2014 Allah!\u201d<\/p>\n
Some points in the audit regarding Quebec:<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cIn 2025, Montreal remained a hotspot for some of the most militant attacks on Zionism. Groups such as Pink Bloc, Montreal Antifascist, and others have taken credit for vandalism targeting companies, banks, universities, or other institutions purported to be associated with Israel, Zionism, and imperialism.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cDuring April, the Students\u2019 Society of McGill University implemented a Policy Against Genocide in Gaza that resulted from a 2024 referendum. The document commits the union to a \u2018strong\u2019 and \u2018consistent\u2019 stance against \u2018settler-colonial apartheid\u2019 in Palestine. This framing implies an antisemitic rejection of Zionism as it depicts Jews as an alien force in Israel.\u201d n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A record number of reported antisemitic incidents took place in Canada as a whole in 2025, but Quebec\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3124,15178,17,15177],"class_list":{"0":"post-34235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-antisemitism","9":"tag-b","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-provinces-and-territories-of-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}