From Auschwitz, Holocaust survivor issues urgent warning over rising antisemitism in Canada

Crowds pass through the entrance of Auschwitz-Birkenau as they conclude the March of the Living on Tuesday, April 14, 2026.(Yossi Zeliger )

Moed said Israel has offered to expand cooperation with Canada across areas including education and security coordination, and has initiated roundtable discussions on policy, regulation and best practices.

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“It is incumbent upon law enforcement in various countries to designate terrorist organizations, as we have done with certain aspects of the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.The world should do so collectively, and America is leading the way in that battle,” Kaploun said.

Earlier this month, shots were fired at a Jewish-owned restaurant in Toronto during Passover.In March, Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism, Amichai Chikli, sent a letter urging Ottawa to increase efforts to protect Jewish communities afterthree synagogues in the Toronto areawere hit by gunfire within just one week.

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Richard Marceau, senior vice president of strategic initiatives and general counsel at the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs, noted that Jewish Canadians are 25 times more likely than any other group to be victims of hate crimes.

“What we have seen in Canada is an all-level systemic failure to address Jew-hatred,�

“Confronting this crisis is essential not only to protect the Jewish community, but to safeguard the future of the Canadian way of life,” he continued.“All levels of government must do more to protect Canadians, including ensuring robust and consistent enforcement of existing laws, improving transparency in prosecutorial decisions, strengthening support – including financially – for community security, and addressing the drivers of radicalization in Canada.”

SanJaya Wijayakoon, an RCMP superintendent in Vancouver who joined aglobal law enforcement delegationon the March of the Living, said engagement with the Jewish community is central to policing.

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Anti-Israel protesters hold antisemitic posters in Alberta, Canada, on April 13, 2025.(Artur Widak/NurPhoto via AP)

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“A big part of our work is to build contacts and maintain strong relationships through which we can receive information, provide advice and guidance on ensuring safety, and, if something crosses the line into criminality, investigate it fully,” he said.

“I think as the years pass, fewer and fewer people within the police understand what happened in 1945 in Europe.Being in this program and on this march allows us to return and speak to our people about what I learned and observed, and they can apply it in their day-to-day work,” he added.

Sylvan Adams, president of the World Jewish Congress Israel Region, pointed to the recent synagogue shootings in Toronto and criticized the government’s response as insufficient.

“I would like to see the prime minister properly define the problem and stop pussyfooting around, pretending radical Islam does not exist,” Adams said.

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“We are under attack.Foreign actors are operating in Western countries in three areas: they are sending radical imams into mosques, they are investing massive amounts of money in educational systems and they are targeting us on social media.I find the response by Western leaders, with the exception ofPresident Trump, to be entirely lacking,” he said.

“Everyone in the West needs to wake up.They are trying to take away our freedom.It starts with the Jews but never ends with the Jews,” he added.

Amelie Botbol is a freelance journalist based in Tel Aviv.Her articles have appeared in the New York Post, Canada’s National Post, and the Washington Times.Amelie can be followed on X @DatReporter