Two locations of a well-known bagel shop in Toronto were hit overnight on July 25 with gunfire. It’s the latest of a rash of attacks on Jewish targets in Canada. Jews are 1% of Canada’s population, but they are the target of two-thirds of the religion-based hate crimes in the country. More on the bagel store attacks can be found here: “Locals Line up To Show Support at Toronto Bagel Shops Hit With Gunfire, Vandalism,” by Shira Li Bartov, JTA, July 29, 2026:
Two locations of Kiva’s Bagel Bar, a fixture for Toronto Jews since it opened in 1979, were targeted late Saturday and early Sunday. Gunfire hit the windows of one storefront just an hour after another storefront was vandalized and its front glass shattered, according to the Toronto Police Service.
Police said their Hate Crime Unit was investigating, and they believed the same SUV may have been involved at both scenes. The bakeries were closed at the time and no injuries were reported.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he was “appalled” by the attacks. “Jewish Canadians should be able to live, work, and worship free from fear, intimidation, and hate,” he said on X on Monday. “Canada’s government is absolute in our commitment to combatting the scourge of antisemitism.”
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow added on X that the incidents were “vile and unacceptable” and said she “will always stand with Toronto’s Jewish community against antisemitism.”
Residents flocked to Kiva’s and sold out their bagels by 10:30 a.m. on Monday, according to the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, an advocacy arm of the Jewish Federations of Canada. Resident Adrian Rocca, the founder of a local real estate company, posted a photo on LinkedIn of his employees lined up outside….
Jews and non-Jews in Toronto expressed their outrage at the attacks, and their support for the victims, in the most telling way possible: they showed up in vast numbers to buy bagels from Kiva Bagels as soon as the stores opened on Monday morning. And how many of those, who came as first-time customers to demonstrate solidarity, will continue to give the bagel stores their custom?
Carney pledged in June to fight antisemitism through a new Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality, and Inclusion. In his speech at Toronto’s Holy Blossom Synagogue, he said that the country was “failing Jewish Canadians.” Two-thirds of Canada’s religion-motivated hate crimes last year were directed at Jewish Canadians, who make up only 1% of the population, Carney said.
Carney, of course, does not connect his series of anti-Israel remarks, including his seeming endorsement of the charge of “genocide” flung at the Jewish state, with the upsurge in antisemitism in Canada.
But we can connect those dots. And we do.
Patton says
Must be more of those crazy Mennonite kids! Then against it could have been a Mormon youth group (sarc.). Funny enough Canadians saw this coming. Back about 40 years ago I was doing a lot of work in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. Travel there frequently in Canada was a great place to work and hang out. The one thing they all hated were the people (well that’s a stretch, they were more like animals) they referred to as “Pakis”. They of course, were the early immigrant scumbags from Pakistan that seemed to be flooding the country even then. It seems the people I were hanging out with were prescient. Because compared to now, Canada was a very calm lovely place in those days. Like the USA, the Canadian should’ve pulled up the gang plank on immigration about five years after the second world war. In those days, of course, as in centuries past almost all the immigrants to North America were coming from Europe. What a shame to see you once great country go down the toilet, now being run by libtards like Carney and that stupid ass leftist mayor in Toronto. A real shame.
ploome says
they will be coming for the cream cheese and lox soon……
oy vey
Big Dude says
From the country proud to write ‘None is too many’