(JTA) — A large swastika was spray painted on the side of a car in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Boca Raton, Florida. The incident occurred early Sunday morning, according to local report. The white swastika took up the entire driver’s-side door of the black Ford Mustang. The owner of the car is a teenager…
This weekend, many New Yorkers were shocked to find swastikas painted on subway windows and advertisements. They reacted swiftly and removed the hateful sharpie messages with hand sanitizer. Two days later, the New York subway system yet again saw a swastika – but this time, it was crossed out, and surrounded by a red “No”…
(JTA) — A former Canadian politician reported a swastika carved in the snow near her home in St. Vital, Manitoba. Chris Melnick, who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly, said she came upon the hate symbol last Thursday while walking her dog, CBC Radio Canada reported Tuesday. Underneath the symbol were the words “F–…
(JTA) — Swastikas and Nazi slogans remain on dozens of trees in an upstate New York town months after they were first reported to local police. Police in Clarkstown, in Rockland County, say they are continuing to investigate the vandalism, which was first brought to their attention on July 24, the Journal News reported. No arrests…
A Massachusetts teacher’s union is backing a suspended high school teacher in a fight over a student who made a swastika out of masking tape. According to a report in the Brockton, Mass. newspaper The Enterprise, the Massachusetts Teachers Association is coming to the defense of a Stoughton High School teacher now serving a 20-day…
The New Yorkers who erased racist and anti-Semitic graffiti from a subway car this weekend weren’t the first ones to stand up to hate speech underground. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo praised the riders who went the extra mile to remove hateful messages — and revealed a similar incident in which a straphanger turned a…
I got on the subway in Manhattan on Saturday night, February 4, only to find a Swastika on every advertisement and every window. The train was silent as everyone stared at each other, uncomfortable and unsure what to do. One guy got up and said, “Hand sanitizer gets rid of Sharpie. We need alcohol.” He…
A woman in Michigan came home last week to find a swastika painted on her door. Instead of despairing, she decided to fight back – with love and magic lifted from the pages of a beloved Harry Potter book. Last week, Erin Zettle posted a public message on Facebook describing the hateful attack. “There was…
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