Overview
- B’nai Brith’s annual audit, released Monday, counted 6,800 incidents in 2025, up 9.4% from 2024 and the highest since tracking began in 1982.
- About 92% of cases occurred online, including 6,248 instances of digital harassment that featured Holocaust denial and AI‑generated fabrications.
- Most incidents were harassment (6,491), with 299 acts of vandalism and 10 violent assaults, including a filmed attack on a Jewish man in Montreal.
- The surge has been widely linked to fallout from Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 attack and the Israel‑Gaza war, while debates continue over anti‑Zionism versus legitimate criticism of Israel.
- The Senate Human Rights Committee last week urged education and digital‑literacy programs, a federal task force, and revival of the antisemitism envoy, as B’nai Brith pressed for tighter online rules, more police training, bans on inciting events, and new terror listings with pressure heightened by 2026 attacks such as shots fired at three Toronto synagogues.