Two antisemitic incidents in the last week have shaken Canada's Jewish community.
On Friday night, a man was filmed trying to snatch a streimel off the head of a hassidic man leaving a synagogue in Montreal.
Footage shared on social media shows the suspect exiting a black car, approaching the man from behind, and repeatedly trying to pull the fur hat off his head.
Other members of the hassidic community intervened, causing the suspect to flee.
However, according to local Jewish reports, the suspect managed to steal two of the fur hats from other hassidic men and fled.
Just days before, on June 30, a religious Jewish man was attacked by a self-declared Houthi in Toronto in broad daylight.
Joseph Bitton posted on Facebook that he was at a client's commercial property when a man who said he was a Houthi from Yemen started yelling that he was "going to kill me because Israel is killing babies and committing genocide".
"He then threw a parking pylon at me as well as a brick, rocks, metal bars and struck me with a thick tree branch."
Bitton said he sustained only minor scratches and abrasions, but the "greater damage was the emotional trauma."
Bitton was wearing a kippah at the time.
'Not the Canada I grew up in'
"This is NOT the Canada I grew up in and have lived in over the past 64 years," he said.
The Toronto Police Service confirmed that Abdulkadir Al-Jelani, 58, of Toronto, was arrested and charged with three counts of assault with a weapon and one count of uttering death threats.
The Police deemed it a hate crime.
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) said: "This attack demonstrates how the anti-Zionist hate movement is being weaponized to justify intimidation and violent attacks against Canadians."
"The problem needs to be named clearly: anti-Zionism is fueling radicalization, extremism, and anti-Jewish violence. We continue to advocate for stronger action to identify, deter, and prosecute hate-motivated violence, and to ensure Canada's Jewish community can live and work without fear."
'Being Jewish is not a provocation'
Comment from B'nai Brith Canada, attributable to Richard Robertson, Director of Research and Advocacy, told The Jerusalem Post that "Being Jewish is not a provocation."
"After every antisemitic incident, we hear the same response from our elected officials: 'There is no place for hate in Canada.' Following the recent assault of a Jewish man in Toronto who was simply going about his workday, and the news that multiple visibly Jewish men were the targets of suspected hate crimes while simply walking on Shabbat, such rhetoric has become increasingly hollow."
"Condemnation is important, but it cannot be the end of the conversation. Actions must be taken to assure Canada's Jewish community that we can freely practice our faith in this country without fear. We demand a response that ensures that we can remain openly, visibly, and proudly Jewish."