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

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 s...