KINSELLA: Antisemitism continues to fester under Mark Carney Liberals

B’nai Birth released its annual audit on antisemitism in Canada and the results are depressing for the nation's Jews

Published Apr 28, 2026  •  4 minute read

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One year ago today, Mark Carney’s Liberals won a minority government.

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One year later, there has been a lot of analysis about what Carney has accomplished in that year and what he hasn’t. It’s a mixed bag with much of the commentariat adopting a wait-and-see attitude. Voters, however, are pretty enthusiastic: Angus Reid’s pollsters say Carney is approved of by 60% of Canadians, which is only a bit less than where Jean Chretien was a year in.

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Abacus says 54% of Canadians approve of the job Carney’s government is doing. Just under 30% disapprove. (Both Angus Reid and Abacus say not many people feel the country is on the “right track,” however.)

So there’s lots of polling happening at the one-year mark. But nobody has really measured another important subject: How Canadians feel about the effectiveness of the Carney government in fighting antisemitism.

Because — make no mistake — Jew hatred is really, really bad in Canada. And since Carney’s election, it has gotten demonstrably worse. At present, Canada is considered to have one of the worst antisemitism problems in the world.

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6,800 antisemitic incidents reported in 2025

This week, as it does every year around this time, the human rights organization B’nai Birth released its annual audit on antisemitism in Canada. The audit, all 45 pages of it, covered 2025 — which, in fairness, also includes the Justin Trudeau era. But it’s all the same Liberal government, of course, with many of the same faces.

The B’nai Brith report looks at crimes mainly: Harassment, vandalism and violence. Many incidents are not reported because Canadian Jews (understandably) fear blowback. Or because (justifiably) they feel police and prosecutors won’t do a damn thing.

So there were at least 6,800 antisemitic incidents in 2025, B’nai Brith said. That represents an increase of nearly 150% since 2022.

The report is littered with awful photographs. “JEWS ARE EVIL,” says some graffiti. “SAVE A CHILD,” says another, “KILL A RABBI.” A swastika inside a Star of David. “ZIONISTS = NAZIS,” says one leaflet that was passed around. “THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN BEING A ZIO,” says one sign held up at a protest. The Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke coined that one: “Zio.” And on and on.

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The report contains many depressing revelations about the explosion of Jew hatred in the time in which Trudeau and Carney possessed power:

— 847 incidents in British Columbia. 677 in Alberta. 841 in Saskatchewan and Manitoba combined. 384 in Atlantic Canada combined. 573 in Quebec. And in Ontario, the biggest number of all: An extraordinary 3,194 antisemitic incidents.

— Antisemitism was always pretty bad, said B’nai Brith. But after Oct. 7, 2023 — when 1,200 Israeli men, women, children and babies were slaughtered by Hamas — the situation became dramatically worse. Said B’nai Brith about online expressions of hate: “Since Oct. 7, (antisemitism has) become even more dominant, more concentrated and more constant. Online platforms are now the principal arena in which antisemitic hostility is circulating, escalating and reaching people …”

— Zionism — the simple notion that Jews, like all of the world’s peoples, are simply entitled to a homeland in the place where they have existed for centuries — has come in for particular venom in 2025, B’nai Brith noted. “The increase in attacks on Jewish life in Canada during 2025 was, in no small part, related to the demonization of Zionism,” they wrote. “During Canada’s 2025 federal election, candidates’ posters and offices were defaced with pejoratives and hateful imagery directed at their perceived support for Israel and Zionism. Some Jewish candidates had their posters desecrated with (swastikas).”

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Even schools for kids being targeted

Carney and his candidates would have noticed that, one presumes. Swastikas sprayed across the faces of Liberals and non-Liberals would tend to stand out. But since he has been elected prime minister, things have gotten markedly worse for Canadian Jews. Whatever Carney and his government are doing? It isn’t working.

Yet more evidence of that came on the heels of B’nai Brith’s depressing report. Something called “Just Peace Advocates,” which has not registered itself as a charity or a non-profit to which law would apply, started a campaign seemingly targeting Jewish children. “Schools are supporting the Israeli military with our tax dollars,” it screamed, demanding that the federal government go after those schools created for (checks notes) Jewish kids.

It was so awful, so cruel, that the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and other Jewish groups offered a joint statement that was more sad than anything else. “There is a co-ordinated campaign to erase Jewish life in Canada,” they wrote.

And there is, there is. And what has Carney done about it, really?

Nothing.

— Kinsella is the author of the bestselling new book, The Hidden Hand: The Information War and the Rise of Antisemitic Propaganda.

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