On another local front, vandalism and scattered anti-Semitic incidents continue in Toronto. Meanwhile, Meryl Yourish is seeing this stuff in Richmond, VA too. Talk about your "broken windows" therory of deviance.
These sorts of things are on the rise, and it isn't just happening out of the blue. Antipathy to Jews is more open these days, even fashionable in some circles. There are examples of upstanding conduct out there, but they don't address the underlying dynamics, and overall Canadian trends remain troubling.
While these incidents aren't yet at the serious threat level, they are an indicator that something unpleasant is going on in the popular Zeitgeist. We ignore them at our peril.








They're not anti-Semitic; they're just anti-Zionist tombstones!
Maybe when terrorists and their sympathizers start targeting (Western) churches -- then people will start paying attention.