B'nai Brith Canada says online hatred is fuelling a rise in anti-Semitism that saw record numbers of Jewish Canadians harassed and assaulted last year.
The Jewish advocacy group says there were more than 2,000 incidents of hatred towards Jews in 2018, up 16 per cent compared to the year before.
Eighty per cent of the incidents occurred on social-media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, or through electronic communications such as email and text messaging.
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