Posters in Toronto depicting Israeli hostages, four-year-old Ariel Bibas and one-year-old Kfir Bibas, were vandalized with swastikas on Tuesday, reports Arutz Sheva.
“What kind of sick monster vandalizes posters of kidnapped and murdered people, including babies and kids, with a swastika? Are there no limits to the hate in our city? No justification for this, not in Toronto, not anywhere. Mayor Olivia Chow please condemn! Toronto Police notified,” wrote CEO of Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center on X.
As per the report, Toronto’s Parks, Forestry, and Recreation Department has been instructed by the mayor to remove the vandalized posters.
Anti-Israel sentiment and acts of antisemitism in Toronto have been on the rise since the Hamas massacre. In March, several arrests were made during an anti-Israel rally commemorating “Land Day,” which marks the day in 1976 when Israel began assuming control in the Negev and Galilee. Prior to that, an Indigo bookstore in downtown Toronto was vandalized with red paint, accusing its Jewish owner of “genocide,” and a Jewish-owned grocery store in Toronto was vandalized with the words “Free Palestine” and later set on fire.
The public last laid eyes on Ariel and Kfir in February, when the IDF released a video showing mother Shiri Bibas and her children alive in captivity. The video was discovered in a tunnel or hiding place, indicating that they were initially taken to an outpost in Khan Yunis. It shows a highly distressed Shiri being forced by armed terrorists to cover herself and her children, with Ariel following her, as they were transported to another location.
