Multiple turtles were seen this week with swastikas painted on their shells in a park in the southern Seattle metropolitan area. So far, efforts to capture the turtles so their shells can be cleaned and they can be given a health check-up have been unsuccessful, according to local news outlets. “We made an attempt to…
BOSTON (JTA) — Smith College in Massachusetts was vandalized with a rash of swastikas. Local police have joined the investigation into the incident at the prestigious all-women school in Northhampton, about 100 miles west of Boston. Students reported finding at least one swastika on a wall in an academic building on Thursday. Police then searched…
(JTA) — A former student of a San Francisco-area high school was arrested in connection with the painting of graffiti including swastikas on the walls of the school building. Logan Stone, 20, who attended Burlingame High School, was taken into police custody on Thursday afternoon after police received a warrant to search his home, according…
BOSTON (JTA) — – An Israeli flag defaced with a swastika and white supremacist symbols was found on the grounds of a Cape Cod synagogue hours after the end of Yom Kippur. Police are investigating the incident at Falmouth Jewish Congregation after being notified by the synagogue’s rabbi, Elias Lieberman, who found the flag on…
A woman in Germany was fined earlier this month for painting over neo-Nazi graffiti, after a court concluded that her actions constituted property damage, the Telegraph reported. Irmela Mensah-Schramm, a 74-year-old activist known as the “Graffiti Grandma,” has for decades painted over white nationalist slogans and symbols throughout Germany. But after she painted hearts over…
A white, spray-painted swastika appearing above the word “Trump” was found on the Yale Law School campus over the weekend an an act referred to as “utterly antithetical” to the school’s values. The graffiti, which, the Yale Daily News reports, was covered by noon on Sunday with black paint and a doormat, appears to have…
Three swastikas were found in a middle school in Pelham, NY, prompting the school administration to call in the police and educate the student body on the significance of the symbol. Two of the swastikas were found in a boys bathroom in Pelham Middle School this week, a student paper reported. Last Friday, a Pelham…
JTA — Jewish community leaders in Belgium protested a local politician’s placing of a swastika painting titled “God created A. Hitler” in the window display of an art gallery in Brussels. The painting by Fatmir Limani, an artist and the Socialist Party alderman in charge of cultural affairs in the Brussels-area municipality of Koekelberg, is…
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