B’nai Brith says antisemitism is on the rise in Canada
In its latest annual audit, B’nai Brith Canada reports the number of antisemitic incidents in the country more than doubled from 2022 to 2023 and has now reached a record high.
“If a physical barometer did in fact exist, the reading for 2023 would be off the chart,” Richard Robertson, the group’s director of policy and research, said in Ottawa on Monday, which is also Holocaust Remembrance Day or Yom HaShoah.
B’nai Brith, a Jewish advocacy organization, said that between Jan. 1, 2023 and Dec. 31, 2023, it logged 5,791 incidents of antisemitism, surpassing the previous record of 2,799 reported in 2021.
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Robertson said he’s particularly troubled by the 208 per cent increase in the number of violent incidents, with 77 such incidents recorded last year, compared with 25 in 2022.
“The systemic nature of the antisemitism has forced Canadian Jews to question the continued vitality of the nation’s Jewish communities,” he said.
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