Pro-Hamas counterprotesters descend on Toronto's Walk with Israel

True North's Clayton Demaine reported from Bathurst and Sheppard in Toronto, where this year's Walk with Israel was met with intense counterprotests and disturbing rhetoric.

For over seven months, Jewish community members have held a weekly vigil demanding the return of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on October 7th.

But this weekend’s peaceful walk—attended by an estimated 50,000 people—was again targeted by anti-Israel counter-protesters shouting slogans like “Globalize the Intifada” and “From the river to the sea.”

Supporters of Israel speak out on rising antisemitism in Canada, the silence surrounding Hamas-held hostages, and what they see as the influence of Iran-backed extremism on Canadian streets.

Meanwhile, many anti-Israel protestors refused to be interviewed and instead repeated chants that some Jewish Canadians say evoke Holocaust-era language.