Protest swiftly condemned by all levels of government; organizing group denies hospital targeted
Toronto police say they are increasing their presence along hospital row after a pro-Palestinian protest downtown on Monday night, including outside Mount Sinai Hospital.
Toronto Police Service spokesperson Stephanie Sayer told CBC News the increased police presence is to ensure that essential hospital services and emergency routes remain accessible.
"Interfering with the operations of a hospital is not acceptable," Sayer wrote in an email.
Police have not said if the hospital's operations were impacted by the protest. The hospital has not responded to CBC News's request for comment.
"The Toronto Police Service is investigating several incidents that occurred in front of Mount Sinai Hospital and along the demonstration route. As we have said before, officers use their discretion during large crowd demonstrations and even if arrests are not deemed safe to make at the time, investigations will continue and charges can be laid at a later date," Sayer said.
Yeah and instead of protesting at the Israeli consulate, they protested a hospital founded by Canadian Jews. Who's the imbecile? The people who see no distinction between Israelis and Canadian Jews, or people who rightly condemn this as antisemitism?
But you're forgetting that protests that happen in places they normally aren't get a shit ton of more coverage. Do you think they would have gotten any coverage in front of a consulate?
is it in bad taste, probably, but that's what gets people talking. But all y'all see is they hate Jews. No they hate what Israel is doing.
Wwwaaaa people did thing I didn't like it's anti semetic!
You're a broken fucking record and ignorant of what the protest is about because YOUR (as in all you people crying anti semitism) feelings are hurt.
Ya know who is also getting hurt, but ya know for real? Palestinians. But no because your "people" were persecuted 80 years ago your feelings are far more important...
Can you not see the distinction between Canadian Jews and Israelis?
Also why are you assuming I'm Jewish? I'm not. Do you think of all Jews as your enemy and all of your enemies as Jews? And why the scare quotes around "people"? Do you not consider Jews to be people?
If you're constantly hearing that people are saying you're being antisemitic, you may want to consider the possibility that you might actually be antisemitic.
Your "grounded take" has a photo of someone cosplaying as Hamas. Ya know the people that went into villages and murdered every Jew they could find?
Y'all have lost the thread on this one. I see people claiming to not support Hamas when that's convenient, but you've gotten to the point where you're blind to the obvious pro-Hamas images you're seeing. You think showing someone pro-Hamas imagery is grounded take. You've lost perspective, sorry.
Click ok the picture m8. Takes you to another story about the girl on the bag they are holding. It's part of the fucking protest
THE RALLY WALKING SOUTH ON YONGE ST. ON FEB. 12. A PROTESTER (MIDDLE) HOLDS AN LIKENESS OF A BODY BAG WITH THE IMAGE OF HIND RAJAB ON IT, A SIX-YEAR OLD PALESTINIAN GIRL WHO WAS KILLED RECENTLY IN GAZA CITY BY ISRAEL AFTER HER FAMILY WAS KILLED IN A CAR WITH HER AND SHE SENT A DISTRESS CALL. AN AMBULANCE CREW WAS SENT, AND HIND WAS LATER FOUND DEAD AT THE SCENE, AS WERE TWO PARAMEDICS SENT TO HELP. PHOTO: JOSHUA BEST