(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…
(JTA) — A Jewish home in New Jersey that was recently vacated was vandalized inside and out with hate symbols and anti-Semitic phrases. The home on a wooded, 10-acre property in Jackson Township was vandalized on Wednesday, days before it was scheduled to be demolished. The windows of the house had all been broken and…
(JTA) — A school district in New Jersey has been hit with its sixth incident of anti-Semitic and racist graffiti since November. A swastika was found a week ago in the sixth-floor girls bathroom at Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle School in Summit, a Central Jersey suburb of some 21,000 about 25 miles west of…
A city council in Colorado voted unanimously Tuesday to change the name of one of its neighborhoods so that it will no longer be called “Swastika Acres.” “It’s the right thing to do,” Cherry Hills Village mayor Russell Stewart told the Denver Post. The subdivision in the Denver suburb was named in 1908 after the…
The headlines seem to come every couple of days. A Jewish cemetery vandalized in Massachusetts. “Die, Jew Bitch” scrawled across Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s face on a poster in Brooklyn. Swastikas littering a playground in Queens. Swastikas sprayed on the door of a Democratic Party headquarters in Oklahoma It’s hard to know what…
Two swastikas were burned into a lawn in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reported. The three-feet hate symbols were created by pouring a corrosive substance onto the synthetic grass either late Wednesday or early Thursday. The same person or group may also be responsible for burning two other swastikas on the pavement about a…
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