How many antisemitic hate crimes were reported in Canada in 2025?

Police in Canada reported 788 hate crimes targeting Jews in 2025, an increase from 492 in 2021. The figure was cited by Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, the US special envoy for monitoring antisemitism, during his visit to Ottawa in August 2026.

What did the US antisemitism envoy ask Canada to do?

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun urged Canada to revoke visas and expand terrorism listings to curb antisemitic attacks. He also called for universities to be held accountable if Jewish students felt unsafe, and for Canada to reinstate a special envoy for antisemitism.

Did any outlet compare antisemitism in Canada to 1933 Germany?

CTV News reported that Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun compared antisemitic levels in Canada to 1933 Germany, when Adolf Hitler established the Third Reich. Doris Bergen, a Holocaust studies professor, told CTV News the comparison was misleading and distracted from current threats.

Which outlets did not report on the US envoy’s call to Canada?

No right-rated outlet carried the story. All 10 left-rated and 7 centre-rated outlets reported it, though none of their digests included the comparison to 1933 Germany or the response from Doris Bergen.

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US antisemitism envoy urges Canada to revoke visas and expand terrorism listings

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun says antisemitic attacks in Canada rival 1933 Germany as police report 788 hate crimes in 2025

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4 Aug 2026, 20:06Updated 4 Aug 2026, 20:30

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun arrives to a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be the special envoy to monitor and combat anti-semitism, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

What this story says

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, US special envoy for monitoring antisemitism, urged Canada to revoke visas and expand terrorism listings to curb antisemitic attacks.
Police in Canada reported 788 hate crimes targeting Jews in 2025, an increase from 492 in 2021, according to figures Kaploun cited.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office issued a statement outlining new laws, funding pledges and counter-radicalisation programmes in response to the rise in attacks.
No right-rated outlet carried the story, though 10 left-rated and 7 centre-rated outlets reported it.

Who covered it

Left 53%(10)Centre 36%(7)Right 11%(2)

Percentages are shares of the 19 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. Coverage measured 4 Aug 2026, 20:00.

Trust

74/100

Craft

95/100

Hype

22/100

19 sources · methodology

Thin on the right so far

Only 2 of the 19 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, the US special envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitism, called on Canada to revoke visas and expand terrorism listings to address a rise in antisemitic attacks. Kaploun, who spent seven years of his childhood in Ottawa, made the remarks during a visit to the city in August 2026. He was appointed to the ambassador-rank position in December 2025.

Police in Canada reported 788 hate crimes targeting Jews in 2025, up from 492 in 2021. Kaploun cited shootings at the American consulate in Toronto, attacks on Jewish-owned bakeries and an arson at a building housing a kosher restaurant in Montreal as recent examples. Two US congressmen expressed solidarity with Montreal’s Jewish community after the consulate attack.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office issued a statement outlining measures to curb antisemitic attacks, including tougher laws, investments in community safety and counter-radicalisation programmes. The statement said the government was working toward a country where Jewish Canadians could "live visibly, fully, and joyfully in public life".

What the reports disagree on

CTV News reported that Kaploun compared the current situation in Canada to 1933 Germany, when Adolf Hitler established the Third Reich. Kaploun said antisemitic levels in Canada were "rivalling the 1933 levels in Germany". Doris Bergen, a University of Toronto professor emerita who chaired Holocaust studies, told CTV News that while such analogies are common, the contexts are vastly different. Bergen said the comparison distracted from the current threats Jewish people face in Canada.

What the coverage left out

No right-rated outlet carried the story. None of the digests from left-rated or centre-rated outlets mentioned the Israeli organisation CyberWell’s report that X, the platform owned by Elon Musk, is the most reluctant among major social media platforms to remove antisemitic content. The full report in CTV News included Kaploun’s claim that X had reduced antisemitism by 25 to 30 per cent, but this was not in any digest.

“The levels of hate in Canada are unbelievably high, and unfortunately with government inaction, I’m arriving here a day after our consulate was attacked with gunfire, (two) Jewish stores were attacked in Toronto, and yet the response seems to be muted.”
— Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, US special envoy for monitoring antisemitism

788

hate crimes targeting Jews in Canada in 2025

up from 492 in 2021, according to police figures

Tags:#Antisemitism #CanadaUSRelations #HateCrime #TerrorismListings #VisaPolicy

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 2 times, most recently on 4 Aug 2026, 20:45, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

10 rated outlets

All 10 left-rated digests carried the call by Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun for Canada to revoke visas and expand terrorism listings. None of the digests mentioned the comparison to 1933 Germany or the academic response to it. The digests led on the rise in antisemitic attacks and Kaploun’s criticism of Canada’s response.

Centre

7 rated outlets

The seven centre-rated digests also led on Kaploun’s call for Canada to revoke visas and expand terrorism listings. Six of the seven digests mentioned Kaploun’s background, noting he spent seven years of his childhood in Ottawa. None of the digests included the comparison to 1933 Germany or the response from Doris Bergen.

Right

2 rated outlets

The two right-rated digests led on calls from world leaders and Jewish groups for Canadian authorities to act after a rise in antisemitic attacks. Both included the fire at a Montreal kosher restaurant as the main example of recent violence.
Neither digest mentioned the US antisemitism envoy’s request that Canada revoke visas or expand terrorism listings. The focus remained on the attacks themselves and the pressure on Canadian officials to respond.
Both digests used the phrase “wave of antisemitic attacks” to describe the incidents in Canada. The Montreal fire was described as “possible arson” in one digest, with no attribution of responsibility.

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