The Jewish advocacy group B’nai Brith Canada released its annual report on antisemitism in April, documenting a 9.3 percent increase in hate crimes last year that surpassed the previous record total of 6,219 set in 2024.
By Dion J. Pierre, The Algemeiner
A celebrated Jewish heart surgeon is leaving Canada to live in the US in response to rising antisemitism as well as inefficiencies in the country’s socialized health-care system, according to a new report, which came out one day after Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged Canada has “failed” its Jewish community.
Dr. Emmanuel Moss, the chief of cardiac surgery at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, plans to relocate to Atlanta in September amid a sharp increase in antisemitic incidents over the past three years, the Montreal Gazette first reported on Tuesday, citing sources close to the medical professional.
While Moss declined to give an interview or to explain his reasons for moving, the local outlet said that the doctor and his family had become disillusioned with what they viewed as the failure of Canadian authorities to combat a relentless wave of shootings, vandalism, firebombings, and physical targets targeting Jewish individuals and institutions.
Moss also reportedly hopes to avoid the kinds of shortages which plague Canada’s single-payer health-care system.
According to the Gazette, his own hospital lacks a full staff of specialists needed to operate complex heart-lung machines for cardiac surgery. Lengthy wait times for heart surgery present another major issue.
However, the rise in antisemitism seems to be what pushed the renowned doctor, a member of a local synagogue who has worked at the Jewish General Hospital for the past 10 years, to make the decision to leave.
“The health system issues that may have played a role in Moss deciding to leave, they didn’t just arise last week or last month or last year,” an anonymous source told the Gazette.
“The problems with the health system have existed for years, and he could have left at any time before. So, what it comes down to is the antisemitism and the feeling that this [city] has become increasingly dangerous or unrecognizable place to live.”
Dr. Louis Perrault, president of the Association des chirurgiens cardio-vasculaires et thoraciques du Québec, lamented Moss’s departure.
“He’s 45 and he’s ultra-specialized in robotic surgery,” Perrault said of Moss. “He’s in the prime of his career and he’s leaving for personal reasons and obviously for resources reasons.”
News of Moss’s decision came after Carney on Monday delivered remarks on antisemitism at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto.
Noting that antisemitism across Canada has surged to levels not seen in the post-World War II era, he admitted that authorities have not done their job to protect the country’s Jewish population.
“The horror and shame are global. Our actions must be local. They start with clearly admitting that Canada’s civic compact is failing Jewish Canadians,” Carney said, noting the crisis of antisemitism in Canada is “specific, severe, and demands a targeted response.”
According to the latest data, antisemitic incidents in Canada surged to a record high in 2025 for the second consecutive year, with 6,800 acts of anti-Jewish hate reported nationwide, underscoring a persistently hostile climate for Jews and Israelis across the country.
The Jewish advocacy group B’nai Brith Canada released its annual report on antisemitism in April, documenting a 9.3 percent increase in hate crimes last year that surpassed the previous record total of 6,219 set in 2024.
With an average of 18.6 incidents per day, this latest figure represents a 145.6 percent increase from 2022, before the Hamas-led invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
“Our review of the past year’s antisemitic incidents must be understood as a wake-up call,” B’nai Brith Canada CEO Simon Wolle said in a statement at the time.
“Hate and extremism are a threat to Canadian democracy and civil society, not only to the Jewish community.”
The problem has shown no signs of slowing down.
Early 2026 data already indicate the country is on track to see its most violent year against the Jewish community in recent memory, with more violent antisemitic attacks recorded so far this year than during all of 2025, according to B’nai Brith Canada.
In total, 11 violent antisemitic attacks have already been recorded across the country since the start of 2026, surpassing the 10 violent incidents documented during all of last year.
“These brazen attacks on Jewish Canadians are a sign of a crisis of antisemitism that has spiraled out of control,” Wolle said last month.
“Violence such as this, which has escalated from targeting synagogues to targeting Jewish people directly, does not occur in a vacuum. It is what happens when governments fail to act despite mounting evidence that antisemitism is becoming more normalized and dangerous,” he continued.
Carney on Monday promised robust government measures to combat antisemitism, which it said would include a “while of government approach” led by a new Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality, and Inclusion.
“The protection of citizens is the most fundamental responsibility of government,” Carney said in a statement.
“As antisemitism surges in Canada, we are taking decisive action to ensure no Canadian community is driven from our shared public institutions by hatred. We are building a country where Jewish Canadians can be visibly, fully, and joyfully Jewish in public life.”
Moss’s announcement also highlights the issue of rising antisemitism specifically in the Canadian health-care system.
In December 2024, a newly releases survey commissioned by the Jewish Medical Association of Ontario (JMAO) found that antisemitism in Canada risks chasing Jewish doctors not only out of their field but also out of the country.
The data showed that 80 percent of Jewish medical workers who responded to the survey “have faced antisemitism at work” since Hamas’ Oct. 7 atrocities and that 31 percent of Jewish doctors—98 percent of whom “are worried about the impact of antisemitism on health care”—have weighed emigrating from Canada to another country.
The survey also found that, while just 1 percent of Canadian Jewish doctors experienced antisemitism in a community, hospital, or academic setting prior to Hamas’ Oct. 7 onslaught, 29 percent, 39 percent, and 43 percent said they have experienced some antisemitism in each of those settings since then, respectively.
In Ontario specifically, the findings revealed that antisemitism was widely reported within academic spaces (73 percent) and hospitals (60 percent).
Meanwhile, according to the Toronto Sun, just over 25 percent of Jewish medical students experienced academic antisemitism before October 2023, but that number spiked to 63 percent afterward.
The US health system is not immune to such anti-Jewish bigotry.
Nearly 40 percent of Jewish American health-care professionals have encountered antisemitism in the workplace, either as witnesses or victims, according to a study conducted by the Data & Analytics Department of StandWithUs, a Jewish civil rights group.
A substantial number of the 645 Jewish health workers who responded to its questions also said they were subject to “social and professional isolation,” and 26.4 percent felt “unsafe or threatened.”
Outside the US, the crisis of antisemitism in health care has manifested in medical settings around the world, including in South America, Australia, and across Europe.
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