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Toronto Synagogue Targeted By Anti-Semitic Graffiti


The Toronto Sun reports:

Anti-Semitic graffiti spray painted on a Toronto synagogue Thursday has brought back painful memories for at least one holocaust survivor.

“It’s a terrible thing to see,” said Edward Fisch, standing outside the Beth Tikvah Synagogue on Bayview Ave., north of Sheppard Ave. E. Friday morning. “When I see a swastika I see the Nazis coming, grabbing people and throwing them into the Danube.”

The words “Islam will rule” are scrawled on a brick wall in black paint beneath a red and black swastika.

Similar stencilled red and black swastika have been reported in two other locations in Toronto this month, Anita Bromberg, the national director of legal affairs for B’nai Brith Canada said.

Both a Korean-language church not far from Beth Tikvah and a laneway near Avenue Rd. and Roselawn Ave. were defaced, Bromberg said.

Toronto Police are investigating the incident and are reviewing surveillance camera video taken by a small camera perched nearby in an attempt to identify the vandals.

“It’s hard to believe people like this — filled with hate and ignorance — are living in our city,” said Fisch who survived the Nazis’s occupation of Hungary. “But it is not the first time we’ve seen this and it probably won’t be the last.”

READ MORE: TORONTO SUN



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