Los Angeles prosecutors have filed hate crimes charges against a local man for scrawling anti-Semitic graffiti outside a Jewish-owned plumbing business. Amos Hason, a 49-year old man who has previously claimed to be Jewish, has been charged with six misdemeanor counts of vandalism and hate crimes, and faces up to three years in prison, according…
A swastika made of tea lights was found outside a Saint Louis University dormitory. The candles were spotted in the wee hours of April 23, according to police. Some students had reported seeing the candles before they were arranged into the shape of a swastika, according to a report in the Riverfront Times. Police have…
An apartment complex near the University of Central Florida in Orlando that is home to several Jewish students was vandalized with swastikas. The nearly one dozen swastikas were carved into the walls of the hallway where the Jewish students live at the University House Apartments, located several blocks from campus, according to the Orlando Sentinel….
Nazi symbols were drawn on a Holocaust monument in Odessa, Ukraine. The symbols — swastikas and the SS Wolfsangel sign — were painted Tuesday on the memorial site, police sources from the southern Ukrainian city told the Unian news agency. There are no suspects. Swastikas were also painted on a wall surrounding a Jewish cemetery…
A Swedish junior high school that was attacked with Nazi graffiti was treated to a “love bombing” several days later. The doors, windows and hallways of the Vasa Real School in Stockholm were covered in paper hearts last week by members of the youth wing of the Liberal Party days after unknown assailants painted swastikas…
Four Portland teenagers have been charged with luring another teen into a shed, hitting him with a crowbar, shooting him with a BB gun, forcing him to eat cat feces and carving a swastika on his forehead, court documents provided on Friday revealed. The documents indicated the victim in the case, Dustyn Murrain, was lured…
A French billboard advertiser scaled back a campaign for the Jewish dating site JDate after its billboards were vandalized. Thierry Courrault, a regional director for the JC Decaux billboard giant, said his company decided to pull 18 billboards out of 100 advertising JDate and which carried the site’s Star of David-shaped logo. The reason was…
I’ve always wanted to visit Nashville, Tenn. On my recent trip there, I had every bit as much fun as I suspected I would. But I also saw something that made me gasp out loud. Downtown, I stumbled upon a tattoo shop. Being a person with tattoos (controversially, a Jew with tattoos), I decided to…
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