Antisemitic incidents in Canada dropped 1.1% in 2022 from the record high of 2,799 incidents in 2021, and violent incidents dropped from 75 in 2021 to 25 in 2022, according to B’nai B’rith Canada’s just-released Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents.
But despite Canadian Jews being able to take “some solace in the numbers” in the new audit, which recorded the first decline in antisemitic incidents since 2015, antisemitism remains rampant in Canada, according to the audit. There were 2,769 antisemitic incidents in Canada last year, or more than 7.5 incidents daily on average.
“Although there was an almost insignificant decrease from last year, antisemitic incidents continue to occur at an unacceptable and dangerous pace,” he stated. “Frankly, the amount of hate directed at Jewish Canadians is shameful.”
Online hate accounted for an estimated 74% of the recorded incidents, according to the audit.
In the 2021 Canadian census, 335,295 people identified as Jewish.