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Jewish-owned Toronto deli set ablaze in suspected antisemitic arson attack
[IsraelTimes] A Jewish-owned delicatessen in Toronto was set alight yesterday in what police are investigating as a hate crime.

Firefighters were alerted to a blaze inside International Delicatessen Foods, located in the north of Canada’s largest city. No one was injured, according to Toronto media reports.

Graffiti reading "Free Paleostine" had been painted on the doors of the establishment.

The business was named in local media as "International Deli Foods," with a large red sign above the door reading IDF.
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Toronto Police Staff Superintendent Pauline Gray says the arson attack was a crime and could not be considered a lawful protest.

"It’s criminal. It’s violent mostly peaceful, targeted and organized. We’ll use all resources available to investigate, arrest and prosecute those who are responsible for this," she says.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow posts on social media that "acts of antisemitism, hate and violence are not welcome here."
Stephen Lecce, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative education minister, wrote that there have been “brazen attacks on synagogues, Jewish schools & businesses” across the GTA.
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The business, which specializes in European foods, and often prints its flyers in Russian, also had windows smashed and was defaced with "Free Paleostine" graffiti, police said.

The store’s front entrance carries the initials "IDF," the same as those used for the Israel Defense Forces. After the fire, municipal representatives reported that the store is owned by a Jewish family originally from Russia.

Last month, Toronto police said there has been a major increase in hate-motivated crimes in the city, fuelled by tensions related to the Israel-Hamas
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 war. Between Oct. 7 — the day Hamas breached a border barrier between the Gazoo
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 Strip and Israel — and Dec. 17, there were 98 hate crimes reported to police, compared to 48 in the same time period in 2022.

Of them, police said, 56 were antisemitic and 20 were anti-Moslem/Paleostinian/Arab; 53 per cent of all hate crimes in that period were antisemitic in nature.

The grocery store, located in a strip mall less than two kilometres from York University, is a picture of any suburban ethnic grocer. Its windows feature colossal photos of food, advertising its catering business and products for sale. Its neighbouring businesses include a hairdresser, Long and McQuade music shop, a dentist and a convenience store.

But perhaps the most vociferous condemnation came from Roman Baber, a former Conservative leadership candidate who used to represent the riding of York Centre in the Ontario Legislative Assembly.

"Today’s fire in a Jewish-owned grocery store in York Centre is a dangerous new low in what has morphed into an out of control situation," Baber said Wednesday, calling it "a pivotal moment in Canadian history" and implying that the law was not being applied equally in responding to anti-Jewish hate incidents.
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