Toronto (December 4, 2017) - Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) condemns the antisemitic graffiti that was found at Aurora High School last week. After reaching out to York Regional Police, FSWC has confirmed that spray-painted graffiti calling to stop white genocide and claiming that the six million Jews that died in the Holocaust was a hoax was discovered on a storage building at the high school early on Thursday, November 30.

“As we saw in the hate crimes report released last week, antisemitism is an ever present problem in cities across the country. This is one of many recent hate-related incidents that have taken place at schools, particularly in York Region,” said FSWC President and CEO Avi Benlolo. “A strong police response is necessary in these situations to ensure the perpetrators, who most often choose to hide behind such deplorable graffiti, are not given more opportunities to express hate.”

The York Regional Police Hate Crimes Department has confirmed that the incident is being investigated as hate-motivated mischief. Hate crime investigators have asked for anyone with information or anyone with dash-cam footage in the area to come forward by contacting District 1 Criminal Investigations Bureau at 1-866-876-5423, ext. 7141.

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Media Contact: 

Avital Borisovsky  
Communications Associate      
416.864.9735 x 29 
aborisovsky@fswc.ca

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