Four extremist plots to attack Jewish targets disrupted in Canada since 2023, report says

By Stewart Bell Global News

(Global News) – Canadian authorities have disrupted four “violent extremist attack plots against Jewish targets” since the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict in 2023, says an intelligence report obtained by Global News that warns of continued threats to the community.

The June 29 report by the federal government’s Integrated Threat Assessment Centre said that each of the plots was inspired by the Islamic State, while a fifth involved the “disruption of a Canadian who traveled to Israel.”

Although no such plots have been uncovered so far this year, the report said Canada’s Jewish population had been increasingly targeted since the U.S. and Israel began airstrikes in Iran on Feb. 28.

“There has been an uptick in harassment, threatening rhetoric, and criminal incidents—such as assault, arson and shooting firearms—against Jewish communities in Canada, primarily in the Greater Toronto Area since the Iran-U.S. conflict began in February 2026,” it said.

Even if some of the incidents did not meet the “threshold” of terrorism, investigations were still underway and each event nonetheless “contributes to a growing sense of insecurity and fear,” the report said.

Marked Unclassified/Official Use Only, the report said that “violent extremist and criminal threats targeting Jewish communities in Canada and the West will likely continue at a steady rate over the next six months.”

Groups linked to Iran will also “likely continue to direct threats towards Jewish communities—as well as U.S. and Israeli interests—in Canada and the West,” it said.

But it also pointed to a broader problem in which acts of antisemitism become so prevalent that they create an atmosphere that further fuels such violence.

“Over the longer term, an environment in which the targeting of the Jewish community as a group frequently occurs and becomes more normalized will likely influence some susceptible individuals towards violent extremist pathways.”

Entitled Global Events and Antisemitism Inspiring Domestic Threats, the three-page strategic threat assessment report examined whether Canada needed to raise its national terrorism threat level.

It concluded that while some security threats had worsened, “notably against the Jewish community,” the threat level should stay at medium, which means that a terrorist attack is a “realistic possibility.”

It said the number of attacks in Canada remained stable at one to three per year, and that rising threats “have not been matched by an increase in demonstrated violent extremist capabilities or realized attacks.”

Click here to read the rest of Stewart Bell’s article published y Global News on July 23, 2026.