JPUpdates.com, DNAInfo As if Uber hasn’t gotten enough negative press this month, the NYPD is investigating the flyers showing swastikas above the taxi app’s logo that have mysteriously appeared on Bedford Avenue, in Brooklyn. Officer’s in NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force division officers are investigating the flyers, posted Monday night, as a potential hate crime….
Police are investigating an incident of anti-Semitic vandalism in a Rockland County, N.Y., community with a large haredi Orthodox population. The graffiti, consisting of a swastika and the words “Hail Hitler” spray-painted inside a Jewish star were found on a sidewalk Sunday in the town of Spring Valley, The Associated Press reported. Rabbi Yisroel Kahan,…
A Swedish punk rocker with a swastika tattoo. / Getty Images It’s been a big month for swastikas. They were recently featured by Spiritual Punx on their donut swazi tee, and now they’re officially on their way to rehabilitation. At least that’s what Thomas Kaenzig, Raelian Guide and President of the ProSwastika Alliance, wants us…
Two East Carolina University students were arrested for allegedly spray-painting a swastika on the door of a Jewish student’s apartment. The swastika was discovered Wednesday by the Jewish woman in a private complex, The Landing, which caters to college students on several campuses in the Greenville, N.C., area. The accused – Timothy Gill Jr., 21,…
An Oregon teenager pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Thursday for taking part in an attack on a friend who was beaten, forced to eat cat feces and had a swastika carved into his forehead, prosecutors said. Blue Kalmbach, 16, the last of four teenage defendants to plead guilty in…
A mourner attending a memorial service in North Miami Beach, Fla., for murdered rabbi Joseph Raksin had his car defaced with anti-Semitic symbols. A swastika and Iron Cross were etched Sunday on a BMW owned by the mourner, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. The Miami-Dade Police Department is investigating the vandalism. The service at the…
Swastikas were painted on mailboxes in front of a Jewish fraternity at the University of Oregon in Eugene. The swastikas were painted on mailboxes in front of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house, according to a report filed with the Eugene Police on Monday night, the Daily Emerald student newspaper reported. The fraternity also informed…
New York beachgoers were stunned over the weekend when a plane flew overhead trailing a banner bearing a swastika. The Raelian group, an organization who believes that the swastika should be reintegrated as a symbol for peace, commissioned the fly-by, which was visible from heavily Jewish beach neighborhoods like Brighton Beach and Coney Island. The…
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