Anti-Semitic hate graffiti found in Thornhill days after anti-Arab messages on Islamic Centre

YorkRegion.com
July 23, 2014
Jeremy Grimaldi

Racist graffiti has marred another part of Thornhill, this time on a bus shelter.

This morning police and Vaughan city workers found fresh scrawlings on a bus shelter at Atkinson Avenue and Spring Gate boulevards, near Clarke Avenue and Bathurst Street.

The graffiti is anti-Israel and includes a swastika.

It’s the second act of hate vandalism in the area this week, as vandals wrote "Arab go home”, anti-Palestinian comments and a Star of David on the grounds of Jaffari Village, which is a community centre and mosque at Bathurst and Rutherford Road.

The graffiti comes as violence between Israel and Hamas has ramped up in recent weeks in the Middle East.

More to follow.