'Crime scene': Toronto synagogue damaged amid wave of antisemitic violence

Toronto police are investigating overnight damage to a synagogue as a hate crime.

The Toronto Police hate crime unit is investigating damage to a synagogue in the Bathurst Street and Glencairn Avenue area, as a wave of antisemitic violence continues.

Police responded midday Saturday to reports of the damage. TPS says a window was broken with an unknown object and the damage is believed to have occurred overnight.

There are no suspect descriptions available at this time and no injuries have been reported.

MISCHIEF/DAMAGE:
Bathurst St & Glencairn Ave
-police responded to reports of damage at a synagogue
-a window was broken with an unknown object
-damage believed to have occurred overnight
-no suspect description(s) currently available
-no injuries reported
-Hate Crime Unit…
— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) June 6, 2026

Idit Shamir , the Consulate General of Israel in Toronto and Western Canada, issued a statement saying that it “strongly condemns the antisemitic attack against Congregation Mishkan Avraham in Toronto, where an object was thrown at the synagogue, shattering a window and causing damage to the building. ”

The Consulate General of Israel in Toronto and Western Canada strongly condemns the antisemitic attack against Congregation Mishkan Avraham in Toronto, where an object was thrown at the synagogue, shattering a window and causing damage to the building.

Yesterday, in Montreal,… pic.twitter.com/Y1qhZELwQb
— CG Idit Shamir 🇨🇦🇮🇱 (@ShamirIdit) June 6, 2026

“A synagogue should never become a crime scene. A community should never have to wonder which Jewish institution will be attacked next. The time for symbolic gestures has passed. Canada must demonstrate, through concrete action, that antisemitic violence will be confronted with the full force of the law.”

Overnight, the window of a synagogue near Bathurst and Glencairn was smashed. A place where families gather to pray was targeted, and the Toronto Police Hate Crime Unit is leading the investigation.

No one in this city should have to wonder whether their place of worship is… https://t.co/PGqbXfD4nQ
— Brad Bradford (@BradMBradford) June 6, 2026

Toronto city councillor echoed the consulate’s comments in his own post on X: “ No one in this city should have to wonder whether their place of worship is safe. Antisemitism has no home in Toronto, and an attack on one community is an attack on all of us.”

A Montreal synagogue was slightly damaged by a firebomb on Thursday, amid a wave of antisemitic violence that Prime Minister Mark Carney addressed in a landmark speech at Toronto’s Holy Blossom synagogue on Monday.

“Canada’s civic compact is failing Jewish Canadians,” he said.

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