Several Toronto-area businesses, synagogues targeted with antisemitic graffiti: police

York Regional Police said on Tuesday they are looking for a suspect after several acts of suspected hate-motivated vandalism were reported in a neighbourhood north of Toronto that is home to a large Jewish community.

Police said they’re investigating seven instances of graffiti involving businesses and a synagogue that were spray painted with antisemitic messages in Thornhill, Ont., a neighbourhood that includes parts of Vaughan and Markham.

They said officers learned that between 12 a.m. and 1 a.m. on Monday, a suspect spray painted the properties while wearing a Halloween-style mask. Police say investigators from their hate crime unit suspect the vandalism is hate-motivated.

Global's Catherine McDonald reports.

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[philnicholson]

You, the media, have made this all so much worse. Do your jobs. You're a disgrace to the Canadian people.

[jackcarraway]

An old Polish man once told me a powerful proverb: They cry out in pain as they strike you.

[eganvillepainting]

What about reporting on the burned Jewish school and bus.

[MoeCamera]

Why aernt you guys covering the IOF soldiers who were arrested for 🍇?

[Wthcdoctor]

Canada is about 9, 000 km west of Israel. Canada exports agricultural products, raw materials, machinery and equipment to Israel. Canada's annual contributions to the UN and to UNRWA are about $200 million and $30 million respectively. Canadian religious institutions in general are apolitical - and its Jewish places of worship are not involved in political extremist acts. So as a Canadian citizen, I find it completely unacceptable for this hateful vandalism to take place here. The perpetrators are fanning the flames of domestic terrorism, and I expect to see a violent backlash against pro-Hamas and/or pro-Palestinian supporters.

[NSid]

As a Muslim, this disgusts me and i sincerely condemn behaviour like this.

[lenworth-yfkb]

"Free Gaza" is hate? That is considered antisemitic?

[pisujep]

Why don’t you cover the Gaza holocaust as you do vandalism?

[drobinson]

So proud of defacing property not so proud to show face

[GMThePeople]

Why is asking for a end to the ongoing genocide a "hate crime"? What would happen if it is one particular group that defines what is "hate", for their own benefit & to the detriment of those they would destroy? (hypothetical question)

[gordonking]

FREE PALESTINE isn't antisemitism. Besides, the Palestinians are Semites too.

[saxonthegermanshepherd]

Idk man, but if I was kicked out of 109 countries I would start to think that I’m the problem

[nonya]

They can't afford more enemies but let them continue

[Vinox]

That what you get when you mix several cultures in the same community. Canada becoming a melting pot where everyone is proud of their origine, yet nobody claim being Canadian.

[MoeCamera]

Why isn’t Canadian media covering the IOF who was arrested for 🍇?

[tomjones]

40, 00 dead, and graffiti gets more news coverage. Oof

[MoeCamera]

Why isn’t the news covering what’s happening in Isreal rn where Palestinians are being 🍇?

[manishagrawal]

At least you are reporting this, unlike the targeting of Hindu Temples and the Hindu Liberal MP, last week in Edmonton.

[DeeSmith]

Free Gaza & Palestine isn't anti-Semitic. It's still graffiti though and defacing private property.

[WinstonSmithRoom]

it’s never their fault! these poor people are just always targeted for NO reason!