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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
There are no suspect descriptions available at this time and no injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n
Idit Shamir, the Consulate General of Israel in Toronto and Western Canada, issued a statement saying that it \u201cstrongly 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Toronto city councillor echoed the consulate\u2019s comments in his own post on X: \u201cNo 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u2019s Holy Blossom synagogue on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cCanada\u2019s civic compact is failing Jewish Canadians,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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