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onpoli:

From the Canadian Museum for Human Rights:

On the night of August 16, 1933,
after a softball game at Toronto’s Christie Pits Park, a gang of young
men unfurled a white banner. On it was a black swastika, symbolic of
Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews. It was directed at a team of mostly
Jewish teens from Toronto’s Harbord Playground. Anti-Semitism had been
mounting in Toronto, then an overwhelmingly British, Protestant city.
Groups called “swastika clubs” had formed to intimidate Jews. The banner
sparked a riot. Youth from Italian and Ukrainian backgrounds rallied to
the Jewish side. The six-hour brawl marked a turning point for
resistance to anti-Semitism. It led to a Toronto ban on the swastika.

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