Anti-Semitic incidents increase for second consecutive year, B'nai Brith reports

Across the country, the number of reported cases of anti-Semitism ranging from verbal harassment to physical violence increased by 1.4 per cent in 2017 compared with 2016, according to B’nai Brith Canada’s annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents made public Tuesday.
And while the total number of incidents in Quebec reported in 2016 was 249, that number nearly doubled to 474 in the 12 months that followed.
Nationally, a total of 1,752 anti-Semitic incidents were reported in 2017,