The growth of neo-Nazi groups in Canada
Source: REDDIT
While much of our attention is understandably focused on anti-Israel and far left pro-terrorist organizations advocating in Canada and marginalizing Jewish and Israeli Canadians, we are sadly also victimized by far right neo-Nazi hate groups who are rarely policed effectively.
I live in a city with a history of neo-Nazi white supremacist organizations, and with Canada’s highest national rate of hate crimes per capita against all minorities. Jews are most frequently victimized in religiously-based hate crimes, but these also affect BIPOC communities (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), immigrants and other visible minorities, Muslim Canadians, and LGBTQ Canadians.
Please see these related reports from CBC, despite its documented anti-Israel bias. These should be of special concern to our Jewish organizations and law enforcement, as several white supremacist groups implicated in antisemitic hate crimes and attacks on Jewish sites and individuals have already been added to Canada's list of banned terrorist entities. Some of their members have been found to be active in our Canadian Armed Forces. Many of these groups are recruiting members with combat or weapons training.
https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/ntnl-scrt/cntr-trrrsm/lstd-ntts/crrnt-lstd-ntts-en.aspx
The organization featured below in recent media reports, Nationalist-13, has been organizing in 'active clubs' and 'fight clubs' in local parks and gyms in Hamilton, Ontario and surrounding small town communities. It uses 'white pride' and fitness and social club connections to attract new members, often with posters in inner city neighborhoods. It has not yet been added to Canada's list of banned terrorist entities. One of its slogans is "No Blood For Israel".
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/ns13-gathering-city-hall-9.7103114
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/active-clubs-facts-1.7586641
While local politicians and anti-racist groups have decried their presence and messaging, police have failed to make the link between their white supremacist ideology and hatred of minorities and Jews and the potential risks they pose to community safety and hate crimes rates. Why don't our white elites police their own thugs? We see the pattern. Why can't they?
Police have failed to investigate fully or to apprehend these gangs in criminal acts, and so tend to disregard them as 'fitness clubs' in local parks or to dismiss their activities as 'free speech and right to protest', despite their intimidating and menacing presence in public spaces, intimidating local minority and immigrant communities in their own neighborhoods and dissuading them from pursuit of their lawful purposes and enjoyment of their local parks and recreation centers.
There is a long history of fascist and neo-Nazi white supremacist groups in Canada, and especially in Hamilton, Ontario. In the 1930s, there were fascist gangs in Quebec and Ontario, complete with uniforms as well as swastika gangs, victimizing and intimidating Jewish immigrants in local parks and downtown neighborhoods. Today we have similar neo-Nazi graffiti and symbols and harassment in our public schools and parks.
https://rcmp.ca/en/corporate-information/publications-and-manuals/hate-crimes-and-incidents-canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism_in_Canada
Hamilton, Ontario seems to present the 'perfect storm' for neo-Nazi organizing in Canada. It has a large population of undereducated, underemployed and economically dislocated white working class youth who seem to resent the success of other minorities in Canada and seek to thwart them by implicit harassment and threats of violence.
Antisemitism and related hate crimes and harassment are a non-Jewish problem. Isn't it time our non-Jewish elites began policing their own thuggish white youth and started doing something about it?
This post is part of the article Neo-Nazi Hate Groups Flourish in Ontario, Canada by Joanne Cohen that was published in the Times of Israel on February 24, 2026.
For the full article, go to: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/neo-nazi-hate-groups-flourish-in-ontario-canada/
