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‘Crime scene’: Toronto synagogue damaged amid wave of antisemitic violence

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Toronto police are investigating overnight damage to a synagogue as a hate crime.

The Toronto Police hate crime unit is investigating damage to a synagogue in the Bathurst Street and Glencairn Avenue area, as a wave of antisemitic violence continues.
Police responded midday Saturday to reports of the damage. TPS says a window was broken with an unknown object and the damage is believed to have occurred overnight.
There are no suspect descriptions available at this time and no injuries have been reported.

Idit Shamir , the Consulate General of Israel in Toronto and Western Canada, issued a statement saying that it “strongly condemns the antisemitic attack against Congregation Mishkan Avraham in Toronto, where an object was thrown at the synagogue, shattering a window and causing damage to the building. ”

“A synagogue should never become a crime scene. A community should never have to wonder which Jewish institution will be attacked next. The time for symbolic gestures has passed. Canada must demonstrate, through concrete action, that antisemitic violence will be confronted with the full force of the law.”

Israel’s ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed , wrote on X Saturday afternoon that the damage is “a ppalling, alarming, disgusting and shameful beyond words! Today in Toronto, yet another Jewish community has been targeted!”

He added: “There cannot be any misunderstanding: demonising Israel, delegitimising Israel, dehumanising Israel all lead to unchecked intimidation, to extreme violence and even to destruction.”

Toronto city councillor echoed the consulate’s comments in his own post on X: “ No one in this city should have to wonder whether their place of worship is safe. Antisemitism has no home in Toronto, and an attack on one community is an attack on all of us.”

A Montreal synagogue was slightly damaged by a firebomb on Thursday, amid a wave of antisemitic violence that Prime Minister Mark Carney addressed in a landmark speech at Toronto’s Holy Blossom synagogue on Monday.
“Canada’s civic compact is failing Jewish Canadians,” he said.

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