Anti-Semitism hits an all-time high in Canada

[Behind the Aegis]

The highest number of anti-Semitic incidents in Canada were reported in 2006, says the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada.

Their 2006 Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents revealed 935 incidents in 2006 -- a 12.8 per cent increase over 2005.

The statistics are also four times the levels of a decade ago.

"The 2006 findings indicate that anti-Semitism continues to be an ever-growing threat, emerging from beneath the polite façade of multiculturalism to reveal open hatred against the Jewish people," Frank Dimant, B'nai Brith Canada's executive vice-president, said in a press release.

The incidents reported took place across the country in both rural and urban areas, says the report.

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