VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Pro-Nazi posters have been found at UBC’s Vancouver campus, the latest episode in what appears to be a string of antisemitic incidents at British Columbian universities.

The University says “disturbing” posters were discovered on War Memorial Gym on Saturday, the same day the university was hosting Remembrance Day ceremonies in the gym.

Photos of the posters obtained by the Ubyssey student newspaper show what appears to be images of Nazis with the words “the true heroes of WW2.”

Aidan Fishman is with the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada and says it’s not an isolated incident.

“This seems to be an unfortunate part of a trend from south of the border moving north. Ever since the infamous Charlottesville gathering of far-right forces in the United States in August, on American university campuses there have been lots and lots of white supremacist and neo-Nazi propaganda and unfortunately it seems like we’re seeing a bit of it north of the border especially in BC now.”

Neo-Nazi posters were recently found at the University of Victoria, while a UBC chalkboard was defaced with a swastika and a “Heil Hitler” message last week.

Fishman says B’nai Brith has been publishing an audit of antisemitic incidents in Canada since the mid-1980s, and 2016 was the worst year on record.

“And unfortunately many of those incidents do occur on university campuses, so this is by no means an isolated incident.”

He says the posters at UBC are an unforgivable insult to Canadian veterans on Remembrance Day.

“It’s particularly disrespectful to our veterans who gave many long years of dangerous service, some of whom paid with their lives, to defeat the Nazi menace in the Second World War.”

Philip Steenkamp, UBC’s vice-president of external relations, says in a statement that campus security took down the posters as soon as they were made aware of them.

He says the university takes incidents of hate and racism very seriously.