{"id":58863,"date":"2026-05-24T17:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/58863\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T17:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:45:12","slug":"warmington-tearing-down-posters-for-missing-girl-new-low-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/58863\/","title":{"rendered":"WARMINGTON: Tearing down posters for missing girl new low in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It takes a special kind of evil to destroy posters that have been distributed to help locate a missing child.<\/p>\n

But Toronto has seen this kind of evil before. Back after Oct. 7, 2023, hostage posters of Jewish children kidnapped by Hamas were also ripped down or defaced.<\/p>\n

Now, as many in the city are searching for the teen girl who is on the autism spectrum and disappeared May 15, posters taped to poles around town featuring a picture of 14-year-old Esther are being physically removed.<\/p>\n

Antisemitism is a reality in Toronto.<\/p>\n

\u201cA missing 14-year-old girl\u2019s posters are being ripped down,\u201d said Matthew Taub of Unapologetically Jewish. \u201cLet that sink in.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A partially teared poster circulated to help locate missing girl Esther is seen in Toronto. HANDOUT<\/p>\n

It\u2019s despicable. But this is a city where there are criminals would shoot at Jewish people at synagogues<\/a> so we can\u2019t pretend it\u2019s all rosy here.<\/p>\n

Toronto has antisemitism<\/p>\n

I am not surprised it has escalated since antisemitism was not pushed back strong enough post-Oct. 7 and then became widespread. So much was let go. For two years, antisemites got away with most of what they did.<\/p>\n

Just last week, I also witnessed Toronto\u2019s parking enforcement running off two women trying to tape these posters in Earl Bales Park on Victoria Day<\/a> \u2014 citing parking restrictions.<\/p>\n

It was clear right there how much is wrong with Toronto. The priority was not the missing girl, but the power and authority of the parking officers. It was all about them. Their rules and their fines, their superior position. It was heartless abuse or power and bullying that also further set the tone that was already in place.<\/p>\n

Turning a blind eye on antisemitism. None of this would be tolerated against any other Toronto community.<\/p>\n

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A reward is being offered in relation to the disappearance of a 14-year-old in North York.<\/p>\n

Toronto Police have not yet commented on the posters being taken down. But in the past, charges have been laid for damaging hostage posters.<\/p>\n

What Toronto Police have done is released a new picture of the girl her family calls \u2018Esti.\u2019 The picture is believed to depict what she was wearing when she was last seen early May 16 in the Bathurst St. and Hwy. 401 area.<\/p>\n

Esther spotted on bus?<\/p>\n

Taub also tells us that there may have been a sighting of Esti getting on a city bus early in the morning of May 16. Her mom Shira and dad Jospeh have urged her to come home if she is able to hear the message.<\/p>\n

\u201cI worry that she is going to be too trusting, that somebody will have ill intentions,\u201d Shira told reporters.<\/p>\n

People taking down the posters of a missing child have ill intentions as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not politics,\u201d Taub said. \u201cThis is not activism. This is a child on the spectrum who is still missing.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cif you see someone tearing down Esti\u2019s signs, call it out. Stand up to it. This is not who Canadians are supposed to be. Bring back decency. Bring back integrity. Bring Esti home.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Jewish community activist and well-respected journalist Marty York, this was personal.<\/p>\n

New level of Jew hatred<\/p>\n

\u201cI know Jew haters and antisemites are driven by a systemic sickness, but this is beyond belief,\u201d he said. \u201cI grew up in this neighbourhood without fear because the people who lived here were decent and trustworthy. Sadly, Esti has gone missing but so has common sense and decency. This is not the same North York that it used to be, just as this isn\u2019t the same Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meir Weinstein of Israel Now said \u201cthis is a new level of Jew Hatred.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Journalist Sue-Ann Levy passed along a message on the Everything Jewish Facebook site, which said, \u201cEster\u2019s posters have been ripped off all over midtown \u2014 Yonge and Lawrence, Avenue and Wilson, Bathurst and Sheppard,\u201d adding \u201ctheir hatred has no end.\u201d<\/p>\n

As bad as that is, there are many people dedicated to try to find her.<\/p>\n

\u201cVolunteers throughout the city will be canvassing neighbourhoods and replacing outdated flyers,\u201d Taub said. \u201cEsti was last seen wearing a green long-sleeved shirt, grey sweatpants with two lines down each side.\u201d<\/p>\n

If someone tears down a poster, the best thing to do it just put a new one back up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"See more Toronto Sun on Google \u2014\u00a0save as a Preferred Source It takes a special kind of evil…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25584,25583,48,3100,3892],"class_list":["post-58863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-matthew-taub","tag-missing-child","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-police","tag-toronto-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}