Canada - Anti-Semitic Attacks in 2008

In a report released in early June, 2008, Statistics Canada said that in 2006, Jews were the victims in 63 per cent of hate crimes motivated by religion. This page is part of a section on "2008 List of Anti-Semitic Attacks" maintained by PaulaSays. This is only a partial list. If you know of an attack not reported on these pages, please send a note to .

• February: anti-Semitic graffiti was found scrawled on a desk at York University. Campus security was notified about a series of racist remarks written in a study booth at the university's Keele campus library.
• April: Police found anti-Semitic messages in two locations in Vaughan. The first, a hate messages spray-painted on a construction sign, was found on Ilan Ramon Boulevard.The second scene was found on nearby Southvale Drive where police found hate messages, this time spray painted on the outside walls of newly built homes.
• April: Police found in two locations in Vaughan anti-Semitic messages. The first was found on Ilan Ramon Boulevard, a hate messages spray-painted on a construction sign. The second scene was found on nearby Southvale Drive where police found hate messages, this time spray painted on the outside walls of newly built homes.
• June: Canadian news network CTV reported that vandals sprayed swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti on the walls of a Jewish community center in Kelowna, BC. in June. Police say the vandals sprayed Nazi swastikas and hateful slogans on the walls of the Okanagan Jewish Community Center sometime between Friday night and early Saturday morning.
• June: Hate-filled words and swastikas were sprayed at Glenmore Elementary School and some vehicles in the area. There were no witnesses and police didn’t find any evidence at the scene to connect any suspects to the crime.
• July: Eight swastikas and the phrase "kill the Jews" was scrawled in black ink on a billboard for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.
• July: York Regional Police are investigating a report that hateful slurs were scratched on a wall at a Thornhill building. The appearance of a profane, antisemitic slur scratched into a wall near an elevator at the building was reported to police. Police have no suspects.
• July: Tiferes Israel Synagogue, in Moncton was vandalized. A swastika and the word "Retards" was painted on the synagogue.
• July: Antisemitic graffiti was spray-painted on the wall of Haig Bowl Arena, in St. Catharines, referencing Jews and featuring wastikas. The red and brown graffiti on an exterior wall of Haig Bowl at was removed.