Violent antisemitic attacks across Canada have surged at an alarming pace in 2026, already more than double the total recorded in all of last year and putting the country on track for its most violent year for the Jewish community in recent memory, according to a new report.

The Jewish advocacy group B’nai Brith Canada reported on Wednesday that 27 violent antisemitic incidents targeting Jewish individuals and institutions have been documented nationwide since the start of 2026 — more than twice the 10 violent attacks recorded throughout all of 2025.

The tally marks a steep rise from the 11 violent incidents B’nai Brith counted in a rare preliminary report it released in May. Richard Robertson, the group’s director of research and advocacy, urged political leaders to take decisive action against what he described as a “worsening, national crisis of antisemitism,” saying he hoped the report would drive meaningful change.

“It is appalling that, since our last special report, the number of violent antisemitic incidents has more than doubled within a two-month span,” Robertson said in a statement. “These hate-driven attacks are becoming more targeted, more brazen, and more heinous. It is unacceptable that this is occurring in our country during 2026.”

The 2026 count so far trails only the record 77 violent incidents documented in 2023, and has already surpassed the full-year totals for 2022, 2024, and 2025 — underscoring how quickly anti-Jewish violence has escalated only halfway into the year.

B’nai Brith pointed to a cluster of assaults in Montreal’s Outremont neighborhood on July 3 as among the most recent cases. According to the report, a group of assailants confronted multiple Jewish residents as they walked home from Friday-night Shabbat services, striking and robbing them, hurling antisemitic slurs, and snatching the fur hats, or shtreimels, worn by several Hasidic men.

The Outremont assaults are the latest in a growing wave of antisemitic violence across Canada, with incidents ranging from physical assaults and intimidation to vandalism, arson, and shootings targeting Jewish individuals, institutions, and community spaces.

The report’s findings align with broader evidence of rising antisemitism in Canada, where official law enforcement statistics consistently show that Jews are targeted in hate crimes at disproportionately higher rates than any other minority group in the country.

Simon Wolle, B’nai Brith Canada’s chief executive officer, called for a whole-of-government response, urging stronger enforcement of anti-hate laws and closer coordination among police agencies. He noted that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had condemned antisemitism in June, even as attacks on visibly Jewish Canadians continued.

“Words are important. Solidarity is essential. But it is not sufficient. It is an outrage that, during the year 2026, Jewish people are being attacked while walking home from Shul in Canada,” Wolle said in a statement. “Our leaders must confront antisemitism and all forms of hatred head-on. They must name the problem, including anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism.”

Like much of the Western world, Canada has seen a rise in antisemitic incidents over the past two years, in the wake of the Hamas-led invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Antisemitic incidents in Canada climbed to a record high in 2025 for the second consecutive year, with 6,800 documented nationwide — the most since B’nai Brith began tracking such data in 1982. In its annual audit, released on April 27, the group reported that antisemitic incidents had risen 9.3 percent over the previous year, breaking the earlier record of 6,219 set in 2024.