Toronto has seen a swastika scrawled on the head of a baby in an Israeli hostage poster before, but this is a new low. Only in this version of Toronto can mothers and their young daughters carry swastikas before thousands of Jewish people and authorities say nothing about it. But there they were Sunday, at the corner of Sheppard Ave.
and Bathurst St. during the Walk With Israel and not giving a darn who was offended. One pulling a wagon with two young girls in tow showed a placard with the Star of David on one side and a swastika on the other with the message “Same s—.
Different name.” It’s hard to know what was more shocking — seeing the moms doing this or one of the kids? Hate seems to be taught to the young now. If this evil was directed toward any other community than the Jews, Children’s Aid would be on speed dial.
What has Toronto become? It’s not good. It has become a place where hatred has been normalized, as was warned would happen if society didn’t crack down on anti-Semitism when it first reared its full ugliness in the celebrations by Hamas sympathizers after the Oct. 7 slaughter and kidnappings by terrorists coming into Israel from Gaza.
They are in charge now. Every week, there is something new to shock people, even though it never seems to. Toronto is also now a place where men covering their faces with keffiyeh’s not only step on a mannequin draped in an Israeli flag, but play soccer with its decapitated head.
In the Oct. 7 aftermath, in whic.