Protest swiftly condemned by all levels of government; organizing group denies hospital targeted
Toronto police say they are increasing their presence along hospital row after a pro-Palestinian protest downtown on Monday night, including outside Mount Sinai Hospital.
Toronto Police Service spokesperson Stephanie Sayer told CBC News the increased police presence is to ensure that essential hospital services and emergency routes remain accessible.
“Interfering with the operations of a hospital is not acceptable,” Sayer wrote in an email.
Police have not said if the hospital’s operations were impacted by the protest. The hospital has not responded to CBC News’s request for comment.
“The Toronto Police Service is investigating several incidents that occurred in front of Mount Sinai Hospital and along the demonstration route. As we have said before, officers use their discretion during large crowd demonstrations and even if arrests are not deemed safe to make at the time, investigations will continue and charges can be laid at a later date,” Sayer said.
When they’re protesting Canadian Jews in a city where there’s an Israeli consulate they could be protesting, that’s antisemitism.
This is also antisemitic. You’re not talking about just Israel, you’re expressing negative feelings about all Jews. You’re antisemitic, plain and simple.
Protesting Israel’s actions you imbicile
Yeah and instead of protesting at the Israeli consulate, they protested a hospital founded by Canadian Jews. Who’s the imbecile? The people who see no distinction between Israelis and Canadian Jews, or people who rightly condemn this as antisemitism?