Hoax Alert: Smashed Windows in North York (2024)
Writing in the ‘Toronto Sun’ one Chris Doucette has been kvetching about an alleged ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ in North York, Toronto and makes his case thus:
‘A man is sought for smashing windows at a North York synagogue – the second time the Jewish place of worship has been vandalized in four weeks.
Toronto Police say officers responded to a mischief call in the area of Bayview Ave. and Fifeshire Rd., north of York Mills Rd., around 3:30 a.m. on Friday.
The outer glass doors and windows at Kehillat Shaarei Torah Synagogue were shattered, police said in a statement released Saturday.
Rabbi Joe Kanofsky says the synagogue was a target of similar vandalism in late April, but no one was injured in either incident.
He says police responded quickly on Friday and collected surveillance video from the scene, but they have not told him any suspects from the previous incident have been identified yet.
“People are shaken, understandably,” the rabbi said of his community, noting there’s been an outpouring of support since the first incident was reported last month.
“We’re a community of faith, compassion and charity,” he said in a phone interview. “The good is still outnumbering the not good.”
Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw said in March that the number of calls reporting hate crimes in the city has surged since the start of the Israel-Hamas war and that more than half of those crimes have targeted the Jewish community.
Police have released a security camera image of a suspect in the latest incident, which is being investigated by the Hate Crimes Unit.
The suspect was wearing a blue hooded jacket, black pants and back shoes.’ (1)
The problem with all this is very simple: it all speculative conjecture and has no basis behind other than that the Kehillat Shaarei Torah Synagogue had two outer windows shattered.
Yet there is no anti-jewish graffiti, no claim of responsibility, no nothing.
The claim is simply that because a synagogue had two windows shattered it was therefore an ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ which makes absolutely no sense. Since it doesn’t explain why it is such and not say something far more prosaic (and likely) such as a failed attempt at burglary.
The fact that any hint of a crime targeting a jew and/or jewish-owned building is almost automatically investigated as a so-called ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ without any evidence suggesting as much tells you who really has the power in Canada: the jews.
References
(1) https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/second-vandalism-incident-at-north-york-synagogue-investigated-as-hate-crime