JTA — A vandal drew swastikas on public and private property in a Brooklyn neighborhood. The swastikas were drawn in white marker early Monday morning, the New York Post reported on Wednesday. They were found on garbage can lids, a residential gate, a traffic control box, and the door of a building in Marine Park,…
— Swastikas were spray-painted at a park and an elementary school in Rockville, Maryland. The swastikas were discovered on Sunday, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. A witness said he saw two white boys spray-painting the swastikas, according to the Post. Montgomery County police told the newspaper they contacted the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater…
A suburban New York teen was arrested for drawing two swastikas on the sidewalk in a heavily Jewish community. The swastikas were discovered earlier this month two blocks apart in Cedarhurst, a town on Long Island. Children who saw the swastikas on the sidewalk on their way to school on March 7 told their parents,…
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is responding to a swastika incident in a student dormitory by hosting a campus-wide forum on anti-Semitism. On Jan. 26, Nazi swastikas and pictures of Adolf Hitler were posted on a Jewish student’s dorm room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Jewish student, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, described the incident…
Vandals spray-painted a swastika on a statue outside the 75-year-old Temple Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia, Washington. In a blog post on the Reconstructionist congregation’s website, Rabbi Seth Goldstein wrote, “a swastika is not mere vandalism-it is a symbol of hatred with deep resonance with Jews, and shakes us to our core, especially in a community…
The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, an elite New York private school in the Bronx, has come under fire for failing to adequately discuss the anti-Semitic connotations of the swastika after students in a middle-school class drew the symbol. Administrators barely touched the Nazi connotations of the notorious symbol and did not mention the Holocaust during…
A Nazi swastika was painted on the garage door of a Florida homeowner whose wife is Jewish. A homeowner in Seminole County, Florida, on Tuesday morning discovered a large swastika and the word “Surprise!” spray painted in black on his garage door, local news channel WFTV reported. A swastika also was spray painted on the…
Donald Trump retweeted and quickly deleted an image of a swastika next to fellow Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush. The collage picture, which the real estate mogul retweeted to his over 4.5 million Twitter followers, also featured an image of Bush in a sombrero next to a cactus. “This was retweeted by Mr. Trump like…
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