Last weekend, two synagogues in Toronto were attacked by gunfire. Several days earlier, on the Jewish holiday of Purim, another synagogue was hit by about twenty gunshots.
Although the three attacks caused no injuries, many in the Jewish community are demanding concrete action from Prime Minister Mark Carney – not just the words of comfort that usually follow such anti-Semitic incidents.
Carney told
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Temple Emanu-El in Toronto, Canada was shot at on March 3, 2026. No injuries were reported. (Nick Lachance/Toronto Star via Getty Images)
In the aftermath of the first attack on the synagogue, Israel’s National Security Council warned Israelis abroad to “remain vigilant and adhere to security measures.” Among their suggestions were that Israelis “conceal Jewish and Israeli identifying information while in public spaces,” be aware of surroundings “in areas associated with Israel or Judaism,” and “avoid visiting sites identified as Jewish or Israeli.”
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Anti-Israel protesters gather outside Union Station during a rally in Toronto, Ontario on January 4, 2024. (Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Like many Western countries, Canada has seen a marked increase in the number of annual anti-Semitic incidents since the Hamas terror attack in Israel on October 7, 2023. The League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada found that 6,219 incidents of anti-Semitism occurred in Canada in 2024. This amounted to an average of 17 incidents per day, more than double the eight incidents per day calculated in 2022.
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Although 2025 figures have yet to be released, Public Safety Canada noted that from April to June 2025, “of hate crimes against religion… the majority were against the Jewish community (69%).”
Conservative MP Roman Baber said the behavior of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and other liberal Canadian politicians has “added fuel to the fire of Jew-hatred in Canada.”
Baber directed further criticism at Carney, saying: “If the prime minister says on the campaign trail that he knows genocide is taking place in Gaza, he is engaging in hatred of Jews.”
General view of Beth Avraham Yoseph of the Toronto Synagogue in Thornhill, north of Toronto, Ontario. The place of worship was one of three synagogues attacked in early March 2026.
Baber referred to an event in April 2025 in which a heckler shouted over a busy crowd that “there is a genocide happening in Gaza.” Carney responded: “I’m aware, that’s why we have an arms embargo.”
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Carney later said he did not hear the heckler use the term “genocide.”
Baber noted that “when the prime minister recognized the Palestinian state, he rewarded the brutality of Hamas, and he did so on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.”
In his announcement, published the day before the Jewish holiday, Carney claimed that recognizing “the State of Palestine, led by the Palestinian Authority, empowers those who live peacefully together and seek the end of Hamas” and “does not in any way legitimize terrorism, nor is it a reward for it.” He also asserted that the recognition “in no way jeopardizes Canada’s steadfast support for the State of Israel, its people and their security.”
Anti-Israel protesters gather outside Toronto Synagogue’s Beth Avraham Yoseph on March 7, 2024. The place of worship was one of three synagogues shelled in the first week of March 2026. (Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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StopAntisemitism called on perpetrators to “be punished to the fullest extent of the law, so that justice is served and deterrence is evident.”
