A California man carved a giant swastika into his front yard, then claimed he doesn’t know it was a hateful symbol, NBC News San Diego reported. The El Sobrante homeowner, Steven Johnson, asserted that it’s actually a centuries-old Tibetan symbol. It can be clearly seen in an aerial view of his home. “It doesn’t represent…
An 80-year-old Italian farmer mowed a giant swastika into a field on a hill, Newsweek reported. The swastika was drawn in San Damiano D’Asti, a small town about an hour’s drive from Turin. According to La Repubblica, an Italian newspaper, the man played the massive crop symbol off as a joke, and then mowed the…
(JTA) — A group of teenage yeshiva boys saved a man from drowning in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Boston. The man they saved, it turned out, has a tattoo of a Nazi swastika on his hand. The incident occurred last week, NBC10 Boston reported. The teens, who study at a yeshiva high school in…
Reports of four different cases of swastika vandalism were published in four different cities on Wednesday, the latest examples of anti-Semitic incidents that have affected the Jewish community this month, ranging from defacement of property to attempted arson. In New York City, police are investigating who drew a swastika on the front door of the…
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee won’t discipline the student who held up a sign with a swastika that called for gassing Jews, noting it was “freedom of speech,” the Jewish Chronicle reported. Kristian Gresham held the sign on May 6, at a campus Israel Independence Day event. The front featured a swastika, and the back said…
(JTA) — The daughter of a rabbi in Las Vegas found anti-Semitic and threatening notes left on her middle school desk. One note discovered earlier this week contained a large swastika and the words “You don’t belong here.” The second was a drawing of Adolf Hitler with his hand in the air, a Nazi salute…
A Canadian man was so horrified to see a Nazi flag hanging from a nearby home that he tore it down and burned it, local news outlet CTV Regina reported. Caleb Pelletier of Saskatchewan posted a video on Facebook of himself burning the flag, which was red with a black swastika. He told CTV Regina…
(JTA) — A man brought a swastika sign to an event celebrating Israel’s independence at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. About 250 students attended the daylong event held by the Students Supporting Israel campus group and the campus Hillel. Students confronted the man carrying the sign, who identified himself as Chris, the local ABC affiliate WISN…
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