Canadian authorities have disrupted 4 “violent extremist assault plots towards Jewish targets” because the begin of the Israel-Hamas battle in 2023, says an intelligence report obtained by World Information that warns of continued threats to the neighborhood.
The June 29 report by the federal authorities’s Built-in Risk Evaluation Centre mentioned that every of the plots was impressed by the Islamic State, whereas a fifth concerned the “disruption of a Canadian who traveled to Israel.”
Though no such plots have been uncovered thus far this yr, the report mentioned Canada’s Jewish inhabitants had been more and more focused because the U.S. and Israel started airstrikes in Iran on Feb. 28.
“There was an uptick in harassment, threatening rhetoric, and felony incidents—comparable to assault, arson and taking pictures firearms—towards Jewish communities in Canada, primarily within the Higher Toronto Space because the Iran-U.S. battle started in February 2026,” it mentioned.
Even when among the incidents didn’t meet the “threshold” of terrorism, investigations had been nonetheless underway and every occasion nonetheless “contributes to a rising sense of insecurity and worry,” the report mentioned.
Marked Unclassified/Official Use Solely, the report mentioned that “violent extremist and felony threats focusing on Jewish communities in Canada and the West will seemingly proceed at a gradual price over the following six months.”
Teams linked to Iran may even “seemingly proceed to direct threats in direction of Jewish communities—in addition to U.S. and Israeli pursuits—in Canada and the West,” it mentioned.
However it additionally pointed to a broader drawback by which acts of antisemitism turn into so prevalent that they create an environment that additional fuels such violence.
“Over the long run, an atmosphere by which the focusing on of the Jewish neighborhood as a gaggle regularly happens and turns into extra normalized will seemingly affect some inclined people in direction of violent extremist pathways.”
Entitled World Occasions and Antisemitism Inspiring Home Threats, the three-page strategic risk evaluation report examined whether or not Canada wanted to boost its nationwide terrorism risk stage.
It concluded that whereas some safety threats had worsened, “notably towards the Jewish neighborhood,” the risk stage ought to keep at medium, which implies that a terrorist assault is a “real looking chance.”
It mentioned the variety of assaults in Canada remained secure at one to a few per yr, and that rising threats “haven’t been matched by a rise in demonstrated violent extremist capabilities or realized assaults.”
Police tape exterior synagogue in Thornhill, Ont. struck by bullets following begin of Iran conflict.
World Information
The 2023 Hamas assault and Israeli army response unleashed a wave of antisemitism. Jewish neighborhood centres, synagogues, colleges and companies have been targets of shootings, arsons, vandalism and threats.
On Wednesday, Statistics Canada launched new figures exhibiting that Jews had been the victims of 71 per cent of the religiously-motivated hate crimes final yr, up from 69 per cent in 2024.
Whereas StatCan mentioned antisemitic crimes had declined by 16 per cent, the intelligence report mentioned incidents had ramped up once more because the begin of the U.S.-Israeli conflict towards Iran.
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs mentioned the requires violence heard on Canada’s streets, rising hate crimes, disrupted ISIS plots and Iran-linked actions had been disturbing.
“It is a poisonous brew that must be addressed,” CEO Noah Shack mentioned in an interview Wednesday, after Toronto police arrested a pro-Palestinian protester for terrorism for allegedly performing in affiliation with Hamas.
Shack mentioned he was involved that Canada might expertise an assault just like the Dec. 14 mass taking pictures in Sydney, Australia, the place pro-ISIS gunmen opened fireplace at a Jewish occasion, killing 15 folks and wounding one other 40.
Emergency employees transport particular person on a stretcher after a taking pictures at Bondi Seashore in Sydney, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Picture/Mark Baker).
“And now we see Canadian authorities are saying that 4 comparable terror assaults impressed by the Islamic State nearly occurred proper right here in Canada,” Shack mentioned.
“It’s clear that this risk is a ticking time bomb and we have to be certain that the folks charged with stopping these assaults and holding the perpetrators accountable have the assets they should get the job carried out.”
There was a “marked resurgence” of hate crimes focusing on the Jewish neighborhood because the begin of the Iran Struggle, notably shootings at three Toronto synagogues and the firebombing of a Montreal synagogue, Shack mentioned.
The Islamic Motion of the Companions of the Proper (IMCR), which is allegedly linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Drive, claimed duty for 2 shootings in Canada.
An alleged entrance for the Iraqi Shia militia Kataib Hizballah, the group allegedly contracted native criminals to conduct assaults in Europe and North America. The FBI arrested the suspected ringleader in Could.
In accordance with the allegations filed in U.S. court docket, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi had boasted that he was behind assaults in Toronto — shootings at a synagogue and the U.S. consulate.
Toronto police have arrested a number of gunmen who had been allegedly a part of a community employed to open fireplace on the American consulate. Canadian authorities haven’t publicly linked the incidents to Iran.
Built-in Risk Evaluation Centre
In accordance with the ITAC report, 83 per cent of the assaults “deliberate or claimed” by the IMCR focused Israeli pursuits or the Jewish neighborhood, however the two in Canada “have but to be definitively linked” to the group.
The current collapse of the U.S.-Iran ceasefire settlement has raised issues that extra such violence could possibly be coming in Western international locations.
Whereas the intelligence report discovered the threats didn’t justify elevating Canada’s terrorism risk stage, a former nationwide safety official wasn’t impressed with the evaluation.
Former RCMP assistant commissioner Ches Parsons, who reviewed the report for World Information, mentioned it downplayed “the dimensions and urgency of the particular risk by means of slim definitions, selective metrics, and hedging language.”
By separating extremism from antisemitic hate and different crimes, the doc created a “statistical firewall” that minimized the issue, mentioned Parsons, who was the RCMP’s director common of nationwide safety.
“This isn’t rigorous risk evaluation; it’s a species of containment that protects the established order,” he mentioned, describing the hole between the report’s conclusions and the fact for the Jewish neighborhood as “stark.”
“By sustaining the identical risk stage by means of a interval extensively described by neighborhood organizations and unbiased experiences as a nationwide disaster of antisemitism…it dangers presenting a sanitized view that lags behind the accumulating proof of radicalization pipelines and eroded public security confidence.”
The report follows an April 2 doc, additionally obtained by World Information, that mentioned Iran’s intelligence companies could also be utilizing native crime teams to assault “Jewish neighborhood targets” in Canada.
A March 2026 RCMP risk evaluation launched to World Information on July 9 additionally talked about IMCR had claimed assaults in Europe, however the 10-page report was in any other case redacted.
