The Toronto RSM cell features a Molotov cocktail in their logo, and it is unknown whether members might be armed. Neither the left nor the right has a monopoly on antisemitism, and no excuses should ever be made for it.”ī’nai Brith urges members of the public who encounter the vandals not to confront them, but rather to contact police immediately. Those who have attempted to justify attacks on Canadian Jewry, from whatever source, should hang their heads in shame. Step 5: Add blocks to make the graffiti look 3D. Step 3: Style the blocks by adding serifs and enlarging elements of the letter. “Harassing a Jewish community’s neighbourhood with hostile messages is clearly antisemitic. The following steps describe the steps shown in the image above: Step 1: Start just with lines. “We are working with our partners in law enforcement, and are confident that this terrorist-admiring cell will eventually be brought to justice. “Sadly, Canada’s Jewish community continues to face threats from both the far-right and the far-left,” said Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive Officer of B’nai Brith Canada. Last year, the group’s Vancouver cell bragged about vandalism targeting what it called a “Zionist synagogue” in that city. The RSM’s antisemitic attacks are not limited to the Greater Toronto Area. Tens of thousands of Canadian Jews, especially in the Greater Toronto Area, hail from the former Soviet Union, where communist officials persecuted Jews and prevented them from openly practicing their religion or culture. The group proclaims on Twitter that it is “guided by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-Gonzalo thought.” Gonzalo is the nom de guerre of Abimael Guzmán, who led a brutal Maoist insurgency in Peru, and whose organization, the Sendero Luminoso (Spanish for “Shining Path”), is also a designated terrorist entity in Canada.

The RSM itself appears to draw inspiration from yet another terrorist organization. Sa’adat is the General-Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist entity in Canada, and is currently serving a 30-year sentence in Israeli prison for ordering the murder of civilians. This artificial link is still seen in the media, and therefore also in the mainstream view of. The bank was defaced to read: “Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat! Death to Zionism!” About ten years after its inception around 1970, graffiti culture started to be linked with hip-hop, a concept coined by the media to facilitate the commercialisation of graffiti and other contemporary cultures. Over the weekend, the RSM dramatically escalated its attacks – tagging a slew of other locations in the vicinity, including a bank in the heavily Jewish Thornhill neighbourhood.

The graffiti bore the initials of the RSM, or “Revolutionary Student Movement.” On Wednesday, the fourth day of Passover, graffiti attacking the internationally-accepted definition of antisemitism was found on an entrance to the Finch TTC station. TORONTO – A Maoist group, which B’nai Brith Canada now understands is linked to a designated terrorist entity, is continuing to target the Jewish community with graffiti in the Greater Toronto Area. They said: if Justin Bieber can do it, then also Colombian graffiti writers should able to spray with colors and art the city's gray walls, and if the police protected Justin Bieber, then they should protect graffiti writers as well, instead of harassing them, of confiscating their sprays, of jailing them, of killing them, as it happened with Diego Felipe Becerra.Antisemitic graffiti on a bank in Thornhill The autopsy report revealed that Diego Felipe was shot in the back from close range.Īt first Colombian graffiti writers unleashed their frustration through the social media, venting against both the police and the young Canadian celebrity, but on second thought they realized Justin Bieber had just served them with a golden opportunity. In fact, in August 2011, a police officer shot and killed an unarmed 16 years old kid, Diego Felice Becerra, while he was spraying graffiti in an area similar to the one where Justin Bieber did his. To the thousands of graffiti artists around Colombia, who have been often harassed by law enforcement, the image was like a slap in the face. In an area of the city where graffiti are banned, the image showed Justin Bieber painting a marijuana leaf and the Canadian flag, while the police provided him with security, even closing one of the busy street's lane. Initially, the image broadcasted by Colombian media was disconcerting.

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