Anti-Semitic Acts in Canada Hit All-Time High; Last Year's 1,627 Incidents Top 2013's by 28%

B'nai Brith's annual audit shows that recorded anti-Semitic incidents reached an all-time high in Canada last year, the Times of Israel website reports today (June 13, 2015).

The yearly tally -- released on June 11 -- shows there were 1,627 reported anti-Semitic incidents in 2014, a 28 percent increase over the year before. The previous record was 1,345 incidents in 2012.

Most cases last year -- 84 percent or 1,370 incidents -- involved harassment; there were 238 reported incidents of vandalism, or 15 percent of all cases; and 1 percent of recorded incidents, or 19 cases, involved violence.

Overall, most incidents -- 961 -- were in Ontario, followed by Quebec and Atlantic Canada at 259. That is "consistent with years past,"" BBC stated.