Anti-Semitic Incidents in Canada in 2011

These incidents are from the latest survey by the B'Nai Brith.

JANUARY

Toronto, ON - A Jew is sent a letter threatening
to “cut you up”.

Montreal, QC - Rocks are thrown through windows
of four synagogues and one Jewish day
school.

Markham, ON - A swastika is painted outside a
seniors’ residence where many Holocaust survivors
reside.

Kingston, ON - An elementary school student
harasses another child, telling him he is a Nazi
and calling him a “Jew boy”.

Vancouver, BC - Students find antisemitic
graffiti near their school.

Toronto, ON - A group of teens swarm a man
walking home from synagogue, throw pennies
at him and call him a “dirty Jew”.

Edmonton, AB - The Mayor of Edmonton is
labeled a “f*****g Jew”.

Sudbury, ON - Antisemitic graffiti is scrawled
on campus.

FEBRUARY

Vaughan, ON - A swastika is carved outside a
synagogue.

Mississauga, ON - Jews are threatened with
another Holocaust during a rally.

Calgary, AB - Posters promoting a march by a
white supremacist group that advocates
antisemitism are distributed in an area where
many Jews live.

Ottawa, ON - Antisemitic slurs are voiced publicly
on campus during a protest over union
access to pension rights.

Montreal, QC - A mezuzah on the apartment
door of a Jewish family is defaced.

MARCH

Oshawa, ON - A Jewish child in a public school
is taunted and harassed.

Halifax, NS - Online complainants allege that
the Rothschilds [a well-known Jewish philanthropic
family] were responsible for the 9/11
atrocities.

Victoria, BC - Antisemitic slurs are spray
painted on stadium walls.

Toronto, ON - A home owner turns to a Jewish
neighbour during a petty dispute with the
threat: “F*****g Jew, I’m going to get a gun
and kill you and your kids”.


Montreal, QC - Contributors to a blog complain
about the alleged behaviour of orthodox
Jews.

Richmond, BC - Antisemitic slurs are spray
painted on stadium walls.

Georgina, ON - Red swastikas are painted onto
a Jewish behaviour of orthodox Jews.

Saskatoon, SK - A Patriot Movement blog refers
to taxes as a plot by the Rothschild family
to control the cosmos”.

APRIL

Montreal, QC - In a parking lot of a condominium
building with many Jewish residents, cars
are vandalized with swastikas and antisemitic
slurs.

Ottawa, ON - A Jewish student seeking a position
in student government is subjected to
antisemitic harassment.

St. Agathe, QC - A group of teens throw pennies
at a family on their way to synagogue, calling
them “cheap bastards”.

Winnipeg, MB - A public campaign to derail
inclusion of a Holocaust gallery in the new Canadian
Human Rights Museum depicts Jews
as pigs.

St. Thomas, ON - A Jewish participant in a
hockey league is harassed with antisemitic
slurs.

MAY

Montreal, QC - Kosher products are defaced
with antisemitic symbols at a local grocery
store.

Cape Spears, NF - A public monument is defaced
with “f**k Jews” and swastikas.

Montreal, QC - A beer bottle is thrown through
the windows of a synagogue.

Winnipeg, MB - A homecare worker taunts the
elderly Jewish woman she looks after telling
her, “You Jews killed Jesus”.

JUNE

Ottawa, ON - A government employee faces
ongoing antisemitic harassment, including
death threats, leading to her resignation.

Richmond Hill, ON - An animal clinic owned
by a Jews is defaced with antisemitic slur
“Kike”.

Montreal, QC - A group of teens attack and
beat a visibly Jewish man waling in the street
with his child.

Ottawa, ON - A government employee uses a
office server during working hours to make
antisemitic accusations, alleging Jews carried
out to the 9/11 attacks.

Montreal, QC - A beer bottle is thrown through
the windows of a synagogue.

Toronto, ON - A Jewish community group and
a synagogue get harassing calls calling them
“Christ killers”.

Calgary, AB - A Jewish high school student is
taunted with antisemitic slurs and death
threats.

Mississauga, ON - The graffiti “Kill the Jews” is
found at Mississauga’s City Hall.

Ottawa, ON - A Jewish cemetery is desecrated,
with tombstones overturned and defaced.

JULY

Montreal, QC - A car parked outside a Jewish
home is defaced with slur “Jew ride”.

Windsor, ON - A synagogue is defaced with
swastikas and other antisemitic messaging.

Montreal, QC - A beer bottle is thrown through
the windows of a synagogue.

Ottawa, ON - A Youtube link to a video alleging
Jews were responsible for 9/11 is sent to various
MP offices.

Toronto, ON - An online comment to a news
story about the flotilla accuses Jews of organ
trafficking.

AUGUST

Toronto, ON - Antisemitic remarks are broadcast
at an anti-Israel rally outside the provincial
legislature.

Lethbridge, ON - Chassidic rabbis are harassed
as they attempt to celebrate a bar mitzvah in a
public area.

Napanee, ON - Vandals deface a public park
with the graffiti “Gas the Jews” and swastikas.

Montreal, QC - Objects are thrown from a car
at a group of visibly Jewish pedestrians.

Dundas, ON - A Jewish residence is defaced
with “Hitler” and swastikas.

Toronto, ON - A mezuzah is ripped off and
stomped on, shortly after a Jewish family move
into a new condominium.

SEPTEMBER

Vaughan, ON - A predominantly Jewish law
firm receives antisemitic harassing calls, saying
the lawyers should “burn in an oven like
Auschwitz”.

Montreal, QC - Antisemitic graffiti is spray
painted in a laneway leading to a Jewishowned
farm.

Edmonton, AB - A jewish day school is defaced
with the ugly slur “F**k the Jews”.

Winnipeg, MB - An individual assumes a non-
Jew wearing a Star of David-style necklace is
Jewish, and verbally harasses her.

Montreal, QC - A boy wearing a kippah is
swarmed by a group of teens and assaulted.

Edmonton, AB - A jewish day school is defaced
with the ugly slur “F**k the Jews”.

Winnipeg, MB - An individual assumes a non-
Jew wearing a Star of David-style necklace is
Jewish, and verbally harasses her.

OCTOBER

Ottawa, ON - A Palestinian envoy to Canada
tweets a link to a video calling for “Death to the
Jews”.

Fredericton, NB - A synagogue is defaced with
swastikas.

Hampstead, QC - Television coverage of a debate
over noise bylaws prompts a Montreal
media personality’s Facebook friend to suggest
the Olympic stadium should be turned into a
concentration camp where Chassidim can be
imprisoned.

St. John’s, NF - Vandals paint “F**k the Jews”
at the synagogue entrance.

NOVEMBER

Winnipeg, MB - A Jewish high school student
is verbally harassed with antisemitic slurs and
her hair is set on fire.

Windsor, ON - A synagogue is defaced with
antisemitic graffiti and blue and red swastikas.

Montreal, QC - A video posted of a Montrealbased
man calling for Muslims to search out
synagogues to deliver messages of hate.

Victoria, BC - Following ongoing harassment, a
Jewish student’s campus residence is defaced
with swastikas.

DECEMBER

Calgary, AB - The Jewish community centre is
vandalized with antisemitic graffiti.

Winnipeg, MB - Comments at a murder trial
turn into an antisemitic tirade against a Jewish
lawyer.

Victoria, BC - Tombstones are overturned and
defaced with swastikas at the country’s oldest
Jewish cemetery.

Halifax, NS - A teenage webmaster in Halifax
posts antisemitic conspiracy allegations.

Victoria, BC - Tombstones are overturned and
defaced with swastikas at the country’s oldest
Jewish cemetery.