While Jews were viciously attacked and / or killed in New York , New Jersey , California and Germany in 2019, the number of antisemitic incidents in Canada set records for a fourth consecutive year.
– An assault against a visibly observing Jewish man by a Montreal taxi driver.
– A Toronto woman being spat on after being accosted with antisemitic abuse by her neighbor.
– A group of Hasidic children in Outremont, Que. being sprayed with tar by a construction worker.
– A physical attack against two young observing Jews in a Toronto area public park.
– A workplace supervisor abused a Jewish employee in Montreal, verbally harassing him and then throwing a coin at him.
– A student-union representative in Toronto refused to endorse a campaign to bring kosher food to campus because a group supporting the idea was “pro-Israel.”
– Two male youths gave a Nazi salute outside a Winnipeg Jewish school in full view of students.
In St. John’s, Nfld., Spray-painted swastikas appeared on road signs and fences.
– In Gabriola Island, BC, antisemitic graffiti was spray-painted on the main building at a Jewish summer camp.
– In Edmonton, a cleric publicly suggested that “international Zionism” was behind the ISIS terrorist organization.
Source: Bnai Brith
