“Glorifying our Martyrs” and “Free Palestine” were graffitied on a bridge this week in Forest Hill, one of Toronto’s prominent Jewish neighbourhoods. It was a veneration of the so-called Hamas “Martyrs,” who murdered, raped, and mutilated 1,200 Jews on Oct. 7, and took 254 people — many of whom have been murdered and sexually assaulted while in captivity.

At Toronto’s Cedarvale Park, someone drew swastikas on posters hung on lampposts calling for the freeing of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas. Days prior, at Nathan Phillips Square on April 7, a pro-Hamas activist used a megaphone to disparage Jewish children who were peacefully there with their parents to calling for the release of the approximately 129 Israeli hostages still held by Hamas.