Police in Outremont, Montreal, were investigating disturbing graffiti on a Jewish school on Monday morning.
Chaverim Shomrim of Montreal-Tosh received a phone call reporting the incident on Monday morning, and immediately contacted police.
The graffiti was found on the Belzer High School, located on Laurier street between Park and Jeanne-Mance. It appears to have been painted on Motzei Shabbos. It reads “one scythe fits all”. A “scythe” is a knife.
Police were reviewing security cameras to try and gain information on the suspect(s).
Initial fears were the message was anti-Semitic in nature. However, based on comments left on an Instagram account linked to the suspect, see screenshots below) it appears that may not have been the motivation.
(Chaim Shapiro – YWN)
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Is Halloween celebrated in Canada? I don’t know, but this looks more like a Halloween-themed drawing than any type of threat. Is there some other reason that this is being considered a threat?
an Israeli Yid
The guy has an Instagram page, shouldn�t take long to find him.
But since he specializes in gory art, I don�t know if they�ll be able to get him for hate charges here. He�s trying to be the opposite of Banksy, with art that offends across the board.
Why does the dictionary definition for a commonly known word have to be included?
Looks like an equal opportunity destroyer to me…
aIY: it�s perceived as threat because this defaced a Jewish school building about a week after Pittsburgh.
It�s definitely vandalism so I am in no way condoning this, but he can easily claim that it was misinterpreted, that his message really is that hate and violence don�t necessarily discriminate, and we should call it out no matter who the victim is.
It’s unoriginal. A similar design has been available as a T-shirt for a long time.
It was done on a school whose students are visibly Jewish and chasidic. Everyone in Outremont knows of the chasidim; they number 5,000 and are often in the news.
To suggest that it is not a hate crime is a reach. OTOH, the outcome of a trial is anybody’s guess.
Stuart- The messages clearly show he had no clue. He articulated that he had no clue what he had done. I also reached out to him personally after seeing the above, and it’s clear he had zero ill intent. Nice guy actually.