Jew hatred isn't gone

There's a ceasefire in the Middle East. You may think the antisemitism problem has gone away.

Think again.

The ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war started at the end of November 2025. In the two full months since then - December 2025 and January 2026 - antisemitism has not disappeared. In many places, it has actually gotten much worse.

Outside Israel, New York City is home to the largest Jewish population in the world. In the month of January - after an Intifada-promoting mayor was elected there - antisemitic incidents exploded by 182 per cent over the previous January, with an antisemitic crime taking place in the city every single day. Last week, UNESCO found that antisemitic incidents happened in 78 per cent of classrooms found in 23 European Union countries - from Holocaust denial to physical attacks on Jewish kids.

In Canada, post-ceasefire, manifestations of Jew-hatred - including harassment, intimidation and planned terrorist plots - remain at a record high. Post-ceasefire, three Toronto men were charged with 79 different alleged offences including kidnapping, hostage-taking, impersonating police and weapons charges.

Religious symbols were ripped off the homes of dozens of Jews in the Greater Toronto area. An Ottawa man who defaced the Holocaust Memorial with blood-red paint walked away without a jail sentence - because the judge actually said he wasn’t “motivated” by hate.

Simon Wolle, CEO of the human rights organization B’nai Brith: “The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has seemingly had no meaningful impact on the proliferation of antisemitism within Canadian society. The October 7 Hamas led terror attacks opened up the Pandora's Box of antisemitism in Canada.”

B’nai Brith’s director of research, Richard Robertson, adds: “Antisemitism continued to spread unabated at record levels throughout 2025 and into the start of 2026. Antisemitic incidents continue to occur daily throughout the country at a rate never before seen by B'nai Brith Canada since we started keeping records over 40 years ago. This is a national crisis.”

Online - where the vilest antisemitism is seen, and where radicalization most often takes place - the problem has grown dramatically worse, too. The ceasefire hasn’t changed anything.

CyberWell is a global organization that monitors antisemitism and hate online. When it finds hateful content, CyberWell shares the results with social media platforms so they can moderate or remove it.

More than two years after the atrocities committed against thousands of Israeli civilians in October 2023, CyberWell found October 7 denial ubiquitous online. Said CyberWell in their just-released report and provided to this newspaper: “Since the October 7 attack, denial and distortion of the Hamas massacre have remained highly prevalent, even two years later. These narratives include outright denial that the attack occurred, denial of specific elements such as use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, and claims that Israel or Jews orchestrated the events.”

Denial of the Holocaust itself remains widespread online. Jewish victims of the genocide are mocked, while the actions of the Nazis themselves are minimized - with Holocaust architect Adolf Hitler, for instance, being praised as a mere “painter.”

However, not all of the news is bad, CyberWell notes. Most of the social media platforms have significantly stepped-up their efforts against antisemitic content. The one glaring exception: X.

Since far-Right billionaire Elon Musk bought the former Twitter platform, moderation of hateful and harmful content has essentially disappeared. Just this week, in fact, New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt announced that her government would no longer be using X for routine communications. Said Holt: “The platform’s recent history, including reports of harmful content and inadequate safeguards, has eroded trust.”

CyberWell agrees. Said the anti-hate organization in its report: “In 2025, CyberWell observed that X permitted content that questions or casts doubt on well-documented Holocaust facts – including the scale and mechanisms of the genocide…[X has been] allowing Holocaust denial and distortion to remain accessible.”

Said Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor, CyberWell’s founder: “Social media platforms need to recognize that Jew-hatred has skyrocketed globally to new record because of the way that antisemitism is incentivized and spread…Platforms should be taking a proactive approach.”

X is the worst offender in this regard, she says. “Without a doubt there are echo-chambers and networks of antisemites from all sides of the political spectrum that find a digital home on X,” Montemayor adds. “[X’s approach] allows openly anti-Jewish content and conspiracies to reach millions.”

The experts agree: the Jew-hatred problem - in Canada and around the world - hasn’t stopped since the Israel-Hamas ceasefire went into effect.  If anything, it has remained as bad as it was, or is far worse. All that has happened is less media coverage of the issue - giving the impression that things are better.

They aren’t.

[Kinsella’s Penguin Random House book on the global propaganda campaign against Israel and Western democracy, The Hidden Hand, will start to be released this month.]