Jewish group says anti-Semitic incidents in Canada on the rise

A Jewish organization that monitors anti-Semitic activities in Canada said Wednesday the number of incidents last year was the second highest total in the 23-year history of their audit. B'nai Brith Canada said 829 anti-Semitic incidents were reported to their anti-hate hot line and offices in 2005. A record 857 were documented in 2004. (...) Out of the total 829 incidents, 531 were classified as harassment, 273 as vandalism and 25 as violence. Out of the total, 35 were directed at synagogues and 19 at Jewish communal buildings, 113 targeted Jewish homes, 46 occurred in the workplace, 161 related to Internet hate -including 34 cases of targeted hate by e-mail. The organization says many of the incidents are influenced by neo-Nazi groups and propagandists of the Middle East who are anti-Israel. Klein said there has been an explosion of hate on the Internet. siehe auch: Reports of anti-Semitism near record high in 2005, says B'nai Brith Canada, Anti-Semitism reports high, B'nai Brith says