Brooklyn synagogue vandalized with ‘Hitler’ graffiti
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News San Francisco deli Manny’s defaced with antisemitic graffiti…again
Jewish business owner Manny Yekutiel’s popular, community-focused Mission District café was vandalized over the weekend with graffiti that read “Racist pigz” and “Zionist pigz.” Pictures of the graffiti, which was found on June 6, were posted on Twitter by Steven Buss, a software engineer, who tagged local politicians and wrote, “these attacks on Jewish owned…
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Fast Forward Kenosha synagogue vandalized with ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti during protests
Vandals spray-painted “Free Palestine” in front of Beth Hillel Temple during demonstrations protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha early Thursday morning. A reporter for the conservative news outlet Town Hall tweeted a video displaying the graffiti. Other property in Kenosha, including at least one church, also were vandalized or otherwise took damage…
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Community I’m Jewish. She’s Muslim. We took down anti-Semitic graffiti in less than a day
Here are two responses to an incident of anti-Semitic vandalism — from a Jewish woman and a Muslim woman — in Birmingham, England. The first is from Karen E.H. Skinazi; the latter is from Salma Hamid. (JTA) — As my husband and I were taking our regular after-dinner walk, I stopped dead in my tracks….
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News Jewish and Muslim women join forces to remove antisemitic graffiti in Birmingham, England
A group of Jewish and Muslim women, including the city’s only female rabbi, have defiantly come together to remove antisemitic graffiti which appeared overnight on a wall in Billesley in Birmingham, transforming it into positive art depicting a rainbow. Determined to show they’re “stronger together,” the women joined forces after vile and abusive words of…
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Life Crown Heights mural transforms anti-Semitic vandalism into message of peace
Like almost every New York City street, Brooklyn’s Albany Avenue is dotted with stores temporarily shuttered by coronavirus. But here in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, among the shops whose glass windows are covered by rolling metal grates, one stands out. At House of Lancry, a modest fashion brand owned by British designer Hannah Lancry Sufrin,…
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Fast Forward Nashville Holocaust memorial vandalized with Nazi messages
Local law enforcement are investigating after the Nashville Holocaust Memorial was vandalized Saturday afternoon with neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic messages. The memorial, set in a wooded area near the city’s Jewish Community Center was covered with a white sheet that bore messages like “1488,” a hate symbol used by neo-Nazis and white supremacists, and “Kikes Lie,…
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Fast Forward ‘Trump’ Swastika Graffiti Found At Yale Law Campus During Days Of Awe
A white, spray-painted swastika appearing above the word “Trump” was found on the Yale Law School campus over the weekend an an act referred to as “utterly antithetical” to the school’s values. The graffiti, which, the Yale Daily News reports, was covered by noon on Sunday with black paint and a doormat, appears to have…
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