This is no witchcraft: residents of Salem, Massachusetts discovered colorful decorations in their town’s iconic bandstand, one day after the monument was vandalized with a blue swastika. The offensive graffiti, sprayed painted last week by two teenagers caught on security cameras, has since been removed. One of the signs hung in the bandstand reads “Shalom…
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the prominent critic of Islam and women’s rights activist, likened the burqa to a swastika and an Islamic state flag in an interview with Australian television, after she canceled a visit to the country due to security concerns. “The burka that covers the face and that is really very much in your…
Students at Seven Bridges Middle School in Chappaqua, New York are in for a lesson about anti-Semitism after a swastika was found scrawled on a bathroom in the upscale suburb that is famously home to Bill and Hillary Clinton. Discovered Sunday morning, the swastika was probably the work of some “young, stupid kid who doesn’t…
(JTA) — A swastika, and racist and anti-Semitic graffiti, was found on the campus of a high school in a wealthy Connecticut suburb. In an emailed letter to parents and students of Ridgefield High School, Principal Stacey Gross said such acts are a blow to the school’s striving to be inclusive. “I know that you…
(JTA) — Graffiti including swastikas and the words “white power” were discovered on the auditorium of a Phoenix high school. The vandalism on the outside walls of the auditorium at Pinnacle High is being investigated by the police bias crime unit, the Arizona Jewish News reported. “No place for hate in Phoenix,” the city’s mayor, Greg Stanton,…
(JTA) — An Arizona teenager arrested for twisting a menorah in the front yard of a family’s home into a swastika posted an apology on Facebook. Clive Jamar Wilson, 19, one of four teens arrested on March 17 for the Dec. 30 incident, told the Ellis family of Chandler that he was sorry, the East Valley Tribune…
Artist Karen Fiorito is seriously committed to her anti-Trump protest: She’s put up picture of the president, flanked by nuclear mushrooms and two symbols that combine a swastika and a dollar sign, and spread it all over a huge billboard alongside Phoenix, Arizona’s Grand Avenue. Florito posted the sign on Friday; she says it will…
(JTA) — More than 100 leaflets with hand-drawn swastikas on them were found dropped on the front yard of the Chabad Jewish Student center at Virginia Tech. The leaflets were discovered at the student center located across the street from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, on Saturday afternoon by Chabad…
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