(JTA) — Swastikas were spray-painted on between 150 and 200 gravestones at a cemetery in southwestern Illinois. The vandalism at the Sunset Hill Cemetery in Glen Carbon, Illinois was discovered on Saturday morning. Swastikas also were spray painted on the homes and garage doors of a nearby home subdivision, according to reports. A 34-year-old man…
(JTA) — A New York teen will serve six months in jail and do 150 hours of community service for vandalizing a local Jewish cemetery. Eric Carbonaro, 19, of Warwick, was sentenced Wednesday in Orange County Court for the October 2016 incident and apologized during the hearing. He had pleaded guilty in February to two charges,…
(JTA) — The 14 male students who sprayed a swastika and anti-gay slurs on the side of their Boston-area high school can go through a “restorative justice process” instead of being criminally prosecuted. The vandalism, using the spray from fire extinguishers at Arlington High School, occurred on May 2. The vandals also shattered the glass…
(JTA) — An Israeli flag flying in downtown Philadelphia at the spot where a Holocaust memorial is under construction was sprayed with red paint. The vandalism, made by a paintball gun with red paint that was found in a nearby trash can, occurred on Tuesday. Staff members of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia were…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Unidentified individuals poured blood and mud on a Holocaust monument in the Netherlands shortly after the country’s national day of mourning for its war victims. The blood was discovered shortly after the May 4 Memorial Day on the monument in Utrecht, 20 miles east of Amsterdam. It features the names of more than…
(JTA) — A man from suburban St. Louis has been arrested for toppling more than 100 headstones at a local Jewish cemetery more than a year ago. Alzado Harris, 34, was arrested on Tuesday after police matched DNA found in a jacket left at the scene of the February 2017 vandalism to Harris, who has…
A statue of a famous Kansas abolitionist was vandalized with racial slurs and a swastika. The swastika had been drawn on the forehead of the statue of John Brown in Kansas City. The word “Satan” was written on its beard. A racial slur was also written on the memorial, according to The Hill. As of…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The number of incidents involving anti-Semitic vandalism recorded in the Netherlands last year increased by 40 percent, to a 10-year high of 28 cases. The increase in vandalism was part of a small overall rise in anti-Semitic incidents in 2017 over 2016, the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, or CIDI,…
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