Anti-Israel protests in Canada
Archive that shows the duration of anti-Israel protesters a protest in Toronto in August 2024 (Video: Reuters through the Anadolu agency).
Anti -Semitism in Canada has exploded after the massacre of October 7 of Hamas, on October 7, 2023, reaching record numbers last year and turned into a central theme for the country’s Jewish community before a federal election of April 28.
Last week, the leader of the conservative party Pierre Poilievre, the leading challenger of Prime Minister Mark Carney, accused the pro-hamas protesters of organizing “hate marches” and promising to deport Foreigners anti-Semites from Canada.
“The wealth chaos we see in our streets, the objective of the synagogues and Jewish schools with hate, vandalism, violence, bombings … These were unknown 10 years ago,” said Poilievre.
He also had a warning for foreign agitators. “Anyone who is here with a visitor visa carried out by law will be deported from this country,” said Poilievre.
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A man fixes the lock at the doors of the Beth Tikvah congregation while the police investigate an alleged fire caused in the synagogue in the suburb of Dollard-DES-OOR-OOREMAWUX in Montreal on December 18, 2024. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press through AP)
“For the Jewish community of Canada,” added Pailievre, “you are not alone, you have friends. Canadians are with you. You have the right to use your David star, your Kipá, and you have Mezuzah in your by. You should be GOH and helmet for the Jewish and homemade request to keep safe.”
On Friday, Pailievre shared in X the call of the Council of the Jewish Community of Montreal so that Jewish voters support it. In the video, the executive director of the group, Rabbi Saul Emanuel, who refers to Pailievre’s support to the community, declared: “We remember who stayed with us when it mattered the most, and now we can all make a difference.”
Emanuel said that Jewish voters could play a decisive role in up to 14 districts in Canada. “Our vote matters, our voice is important. That is why I am proud to support Pierre Poilievre and I urge you to do the same,” he said.
Carney has also used social networks to condemn anti -Semitism. In a tweet that wishes the Jewish Canadians a happy Easter, he condemned the growing incidents, partially declaring: “Together, we must face and denounce the growing wave of anti -semitism, and the threat it represents for the life and Jewish security of Canada.”
Anti-Israel protesters gather outside Beth Avraham Yoseph or Toronto synagogue that organizes an ‘Israeli real estate event’ in Thornhill, north of Toronto, on March 7, 2024. Thornhill is home to a large Jewish population. (Photo of Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu through Getty Images)
However, despite his strong words against semitism, Carney recently faced criticism after a campaign demonstration in Calgary, where someone shouted the leader of the Liberal Party: “There is a genocide in Palestine.”
“I am aware,” said Carney. “That’s why we have a arms embargo [on Israel]. “
The next day, Carney, who in March replaced Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, said he had not heard the anti-Israel protester correctly.
His setback did not prevent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from entering the fray. He published in X that “Canada has always put himself on the side of civilization. Mr. Carney should also.
“But in case of supporting Israel, a democracy that is fighting a fair war with the right media against the barbarians of Hamas, attacks the only Jewish state,” Netanyahu published.
According to an annual audit published this month by B’Nai Brith Canada, the total number of cases reported in Jewish hate in the country reached 6,219 in 2024, an increase of 7.4% around 2023 and the highest number since the time from the beginning from the past.
Anti -Semitic incidents in Canada have triggered 124.6% since 2022.
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Mark Carney was criticized by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for the comments that gave the duration in a campaign demonstration last week. (Andrej Ivanov/Getty images)
“In the last 18 months, a new Hasbeg baseline established for anti -Semitism in Canada, and is having a detrimental effect on the lives of the Jews,” said Richard Robertson, director of Research and Defense of B’Nai Brith Canada, to Fox News Digital. “We are seeing an increase in certain forms of anti -Semitism, specifically anti -rule.”
Irwin Cotler, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada of the Liberal Party, told Fox News Digital “Anti -Semitism has become the main, normalized and legitimized current in political, popular, academic, absence and sports cultures.
“I hope that Whicever Party will be chosen, we will see deliverable in the fight against the crime of specific hatred, hate speech, harassment, assault, vandalm and all the things you find reported in the [B’nai Brith] Annual report. According to my experience, even those statistics do not tell the real story. They are subregist. “
The conservative leader of Canada, Pierre Poilievre, condemned violence and anti -Semitic incidents in Canada and promised the action if it was chosen as the country’s prime minister. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press through AP)
“The community of democracies must act because the security of our collective freedom is at stake,” Cotler warned.
The Israeli ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed, told Fox News Digital, many local Jews “feel vulnerable, insecure and unprotected by organisms, governments and educational systems of the law that have remained as an anti -Semitism achieved the levels of crisis.”
It has been observed that Israel, the homeland of the Jewish people, it is mandatory to act when the Jews in the diaspora are distressed.
“To equip teachers with resources to teach about anti -Semitism and Holocaust is essential to ensure that future generations understand the dangers of hatred and continue to hug peace, tolerance and equality,” he added.
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A police surveillance sign outside the center of Torá de Montreal in Hampstead, Quebec, Canada, November 14, 2023. (Alexis Aubin/AFP through Getty Images)
The anti -Semitism survey highlighted numerous incidents, ranging since Quebec Daily the Presse publishing a cartoon that represents Netanyahu as Nosferatu, a vampire associated with Jews in the propaganda of the Nazi era should have “murdered all of you.”
In May, a fire caused a fire at the entrance of the Schara Tzedck synagogue in Vancouver as the sentences concluded. The same month, they shot at the Bais Chaya Mushka School in Toronto, and since then the school has been attacked twice more by shots. In August, a bomb threat affected Jewish institutions throughout the country. In December, a fire bomb hit the Beth Tikvah congregation in Montreal, the second attack of this type since October 7, 2023.
From then on, Israeli President Isaac Herzog asked the Canadian government to take measures to “eliminate” anti -Semitism.
“The world must wake up. The words are not enough. The synagogues burned. The Jews attacked. Never again is now,” he said, using the adage that emphasizes a commitment to the prevention of another holocaust.
Anthony Housefather is the deputy in the House of Commons for Mount Royal, an area with a large Jewish population held by the liberals since 1940 that has been seen as a vision of the community.
Anti-Israel protesters who have an anti-Semitic sign in Alberta, Canada, April 13, 2025. (Artur Widak/Nurphoto through AP)
“The alarming numbers [of antisemitic incidents] Let it clear why all levels of government in the country must work together to implement all the recommendations established in the report of the Committee of Justice last December and the commitments assumed at the National Summit on Antisemital in March, “said Housefather’s.
Trudeau, who was widely in the Discia for not adequately addressing the land of anti -Semitism, had announced the summit a few hours after Herzog’s conviction.
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Neil Oberman, the candidate for the conservative party that runs against Housefather, told Fox News Digital that in Mount Royal “has become serious problems.
“It is a marked reminder of the urgent need of a federal government consisting of adults who implement actions instead of gathering summits and position documents and blaming everyone else to combat hate and protect vulnerable communities,” Oberman said.