New York police are reportedly hunting for anti-Semitic vandals who spray-painted swastikas and hateful messages in a Brooklyn neighborhood over the weekend.

The Daily News reported several swastikas and the words, “Die Jews,” were painted on the garage of a home on E. 5th St. in Midwood, which has a large Jewish community.

“We are very afraid,” said the home’s shaken owner, Sharon Miltz, 56, told the paper. “We don’t know why this is happening.”

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Two more swastikas were painted on a door of an apartment building across the street, the paper reported.

“This is just the latest in a series of ongoing anti-Semitic occurrences in Brooklyn and throughout New York City,” Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Boro Park) said in a statement. “People are justifiably very concerned and upset.”

The attack took place not far from the spot where several cars were vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti in November. Police recently said that incident is being investigated as an insurance scam, not a hate crime.

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