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Thursday, December 07, 2017

More hate crimes in Canada against Jews than any other religious, ethnic or racial group

In 2016, there were more anti-Jewish hate crimes than even anti-Black hate crimes in Canada, which is almost certainly unprecedented.

Anti-Jewish crimes always are the most prominent compared to crimes against other religious groups (anti-Muslim crimes actually went down while anti-Jewish crimes went up.)

But to have antisemitic hate crimes outpace even racist crimes is extremey worrisome.

There are some 380,000 Jews in Canada and nearly  twice that many Blacks. There are over a million Muslims, meaning that Jews are about six times as likely to be victims of hate crimes than Muslims.


Here's the full table:





Number – 2014Number – 2015Number – 2016
Detailed motivation
Race/ethnicity611641666
Black238224214
East or Southeast Asian524961
South Asian494872
Arab or West Asian6992112
Aboriginal373530
White493836
Other1106130125
Race not specified112516
Religion429469460
Jewish213178221
Muslim99159139
Catholic355527
Other2494137
Religion not specified333636
Sexual orientation155141176
Other3778688
Unknown232519
Total1,2951,3621,409
...
not applicable
Note(s):
Information in this table reflects data reported by police services covering 99.7% of the population of Canada. Percentages have been calculated excluding hate crimes where the motivation was unknown. Percentages may not add to 100% due to rounding.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.





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