Another day, another report on rising #antisemitism. Since 7 October, in #Canada

shots have been fired at #Jewish schools, a #synagogue and com­munity centre fire­bombed, #Swastikas painted on Jew­ish homes, Jew­ish #university stu­dents and fac­ulty intim­id­ated and threatened, Jew­ish busi­nesses van­dal­ized, and their cus­tom­ers sur­roun­ded by angry demon­strat­ors.

Tra­gic­ally, it's not as if any of these things are new — they've just exploded since Oct. 7. Year after year #Jews, des­pite their rel­at­ively small pop­u­la­tion, are the most tar­geted group in Canada for reli­giously motiv­ated #hate crimes.

As the fed­eral gov­ern­ment said long before the start of the Israel/hamas war: “Anti-semit­ism con­tin­ues to per­sist in Canada, mani­fest­ing itself through van­dal­ism and graf­fiti; cir­cu­la­tion of hate pro­pa­ganda; intol­er­ance and #racist lan­guage in places like Twit­ter, in com­ments sec­tions, web for­ums and blogs; bomb threats to Jew­ish schools and com­munity centres; intim­id­a­tion of Jew­ish uni­versity stu­dents; and the use of the Boy­cott, Divest­ment and Sanc­tions (BDS) move­ment to del­e­git­im­ize the State of Israel.”

https://epaper.nationalpost.com/article/281638194975017