[IsraelTimes] Building damaged but students still able to attend classes on Friday; condemning antisemitism, mayor says ‘enough is enough’
Toronto Police are investigating evidence of gunshots fired overnight on Friday at Bais Chaya, a Jewish girls’ school, the third such incident since May.
As in the previous shootings, no one was injured in the incident.
Police said they were notified of the shooting at around 2:30 a.m. on Friday. The department’s Integrated Gun and Gang Task Force is investigating, with support from the Hate Crime Unit.
The building sustained property damage, according to the Toronto Jewish federation’s Jewish Security Network, but students were ultimately able to attend school Friday.
Bais Chaya Mushka is part of a network of Chabad-Lubavitch schools. All three shootings at the school took place overnight when the building was closed.
The first shooting occurred on a Shabbat in May at around 4 a.m. Then, in October, on Yom Kippur, gunshots were fired at the school from a vehicle. About a week later, two suspects — a 20-year-old man and 17-year-old boy — were arrested on firearm charges for that shooting.
"Enough is enough. Antisemitism and antisemitic attacks have no place in Toronto," Mayor Olivia Chow said in a statement on Friday. "The latest shooting at the Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School is unacceptable. Once again students, families, and neighbors are waking up to safety concerns."
She added, "Toronto Police acted swiftly and arrested two individuals connected to the October 12 firearm discharge incident. I trust the police will do everything they can again."
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North...
tweeted, "I’m sickened by reports of shots fired at a Jewish elementary school in North York. This is a hateful, antisemitic attack on Toronto’s Jewish community."
The shooting comes just days after a Montreal-area synagogue was Molotov cocktailed and is the latest in a series of attacks on Canadian Jewish institutions since Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
’s October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel, which launched the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
and has sparked a global spike in antisemitism.
In November 2023, assailants tossed a Molotov cocktail at the same synagogue, Congregation Beth Tikvah. The same month, shots were fired at two Orthodox Jewish schools in Montreal. In March, a venue postponed a Jewish film festival in Hamilton, Ontario due to "security and safety concerns," despite objections from the local Jewish federation, which said that the concerns centered on opposition to Israeli films. In August, bomb threats were sent to dozens of Jewish institutions across Canada. 
|
