Record antisemitic incidents in Canada fuel criticism of Carney government response

The Canadian authorities led by Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing renewed disapproval that it is not doing capable to curb antisemitism arsenic a caller study shows grounds numbers of hatred crimes against the nation's Jewish population. 

On Monday, quality rights enactment B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights released a study showing that 6,800 antisemitic incidents took spot successful the state successful 2025, representing a 9.4% summation implicit 2024. On average, this represented 18.6 incidents a day, and was the "highest volume" the radical has recorded since it began tracking incidents.

Just past week, Canada’s Standing Senate Committee connected Human Rights released a study connected the emergence of antisemitism successful Canada pursuing the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. The committee issued 22 recommendations for the Canadian authorities to code the tide of anti-Jewish hate.

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The Montreal Torah Center is shown successful Hampstead, Quebec, connected Nov. 14, 2023, amid concerns implicit a emergence successful antisemitic acts including attacks connected Jewish schools and a synagogue successful Montreal. (Photo by ALEXIS AUBIN/AFP via Getty Images)

The recommendations span the gamut of expanding probe into hatred transgression data, improving information funding, addressing the show of hatred symbols, expanding societal media and integer literacy, and expanding acquisition resources for professionals teachers and students.

In 1 recommendation, the study addressed the premier curate directly, asking that helium reinstate the presumption of a Special Envoy connected Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism. Carney eliminated this presumption successful February on with the combating Islamophobia position, integrating them into a antithetic office. His bureau did not respond to Fox News Digital’s enquiry astir whether helium intends to travel the recommendation.

While immoderate welcomed the report, respective Jewish-Canadians expressed interest whether it accurately identified drivers of antisemitism.

The study does not notation Islamic extremism, and lone occasionally mentions antizionist fervor, often describing it utilizing the words of different institutions and respondents.

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Masked pro-Palestinian protesters stormed a pro-Israel lawsuit successful Toronto, breaking solid and allegedly attacking attendees connected Nov. 5, 2025. (Jonathan Karten)

"It is profoundly troubling and bewildering that the Senate study doesn’t adjacent notation spiritual radicalism arsenic a problem," Rabbi Elchanan Poupko, big of The Jewish World podcast told Fox News Digital.

He said "the reluctance to place the radicals is itself grounds of ignorance and bias. By their soundlessness politicians are implying that they deliberation the wide Muslim assemblage is supportive of the radicals and truthful fearfulness alienating that assemblage by denouncing the radicals. Truth beryllium told it is often that mean Muslims are the archetypal who endure astatine the hands of extremist elements."

Poupko added that it "is notoriously hard to quantify with immoderate grade of certainty what percent of Canadian Muslims enactment the radicals," but said that "it is surely acold from a majority."

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Anti-Israel protesters stitchery extracurricular the Beth Avraham Yoseph synagogue successful Toronto connected March 7, 2024. The synagogue was 1 of 3 targeted successful shootings during the archetypal week of March 2024. (Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu)

The Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council raised concerns of its ain astir the Senate’s recommendations. Though it "reaffirm[ed] that combating antisemitism is indispensable to protecting each communities successful Canada," the radical stated connected X that "certain recommendations…raise superior concerns astir imaginable impacts connected Charter-protected freedoms, including protestation and expression" and suggested "efforts to code hate" should "not inadvertently bounds civilian rights, restrict lawful advocacy oregon disproportionately marginalize communities."

Aviva Klompas, CEO and co-founder of Boundless Israel, told Fox News Digital that she applauds the report’s recommendations of "creating information zones astir spiritual institutions and assemblage spaces, strengthening hatred transgression enforcement and education," but does not "think it afloat accounts for the aggregate dimensions driving this contiguous surge, including Islamic extremism and the ways antizionism is utilized arsenic a screen to people Jews."

There are concerns astir whether the Senate’s recommendations are capable to code the existent clime of anti-Jewish hate. Poupko said that "antisemitism is excessively generic a word to picture what is present the problem," and says that the "‘old’ solutions, similar education, constabulary grooming and Holocaust consciousness are intelligibly insufficient to conscionable the challenge."

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faces disapproval implicit the emergence successful antisemitic attacks aft shootings astatine synagogues successful the Toronto country earlier this year. (Renaud Philippe/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Nick Lachance/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

Klompas says she "appreciate[s] that a program is being enactment into place" but is acrophobic "that it doesn’t conscionable the urgency of the moment. Jewish schools person been changeable at, synagogues repeatedly targeted and Jewish-owned businesses vandalized."

She questioned whether anyone would "gamble connected a caller task unit oregon acquisition grooming programs to support your household and friends harmless astatine a infinitesimal erstwhile they are actively nether attack?"

Ian McLeod, elder media relations advisor astatine the Canadian Department of Justice, told Fox News Digital that "the Government of Canada is taking concrete action to counter hate in each its forms, including antisemitism, and reenforce that our nine volition not tolerate anyone being made to consciousness acrophobic due to the fact that of who they are, however they worship oregon wherever they gather." The spokesperson noted that galore of the Senate’s recommendations "reflect these actions."

Temple Emanu-El successful Toronto was changeable astatine connected March 3, 2026. No injuries were reported. (Nick Lachance/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

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Among the initiatives McLeod said were already underway is Canada’s Action Plan connected Combatting Hate (CAPCH), launched successful September 2024, "which brings new and existing initiatives unneurotic to foster greater coordination and collaboration among national organizations to forestall and code hate."  

During the aforesaid year, McLeod said that the Canadian authorities "announced implicit $273 cardinal to enactment assemblage safety, amended responses to hatred crimes, assistance victims, and antagonistic radicalization."