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Source: https://torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-anti-israel-demos-threaten-public-safety
Anti-Israel Demos Threaten Public Safety
(Toronto Sun-Canada) Editorial - On Sunday, 150 protesters demonstrated inside Toronto's Eaton Centre outside Zara - a Spanish retail clothing chain - while the mall was crowded with Christmas shoppers. The professed justifications of the protesters are becoming increasingly divorced from the Israel-Hamas conflict. Zara has been targeted internationally for an ad campaign called "The Jacket," which the demonstrators claim contained imagery resembling corpses and scenes of destruction in Gaza, even though the company, which has apologized, said it was conceived in July and photographed in September - before the start of the war - and meant to show unfinished works in a sculptor's studio.