Police are investigating after a Kingston synagogue received a hate message in the mail.

Kingston Police were called Tuesday to Beth Israel Congregation on Centre Street after a letter was received that featured violent graphics and a threat toward Jewish people.

“It was a hand-drawn pamphlet with graphics and hate statements,” Const. Cameron Mack said.

“It would be investigated as a potential hate crime. The racial connotation, threats and graphics are obviously violent.”

Mack confirmed that the pamphlet the Kingston synagogue received was the same pamphlet that arrived at other synagogues across Canada.

Police in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton and Hamilton have all reported hate messages arriving at synagogues.

In Montreal, police said Beth Ora and Shaare Zedek synagogues received a letter with the phrase “Jewry must perish” and a drawing of a bleeding Star of David covered by a swastika.

The letters arrived in the midst of the celebration of Hannukah.

— with files from The Canadian Press