This is the Forward’s coverage of vandalism, including antisemitic attacks against Jews.
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Fast Forward Holocaust Memorials In Estonia Torched, Vandalized With Swastika
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals scrawled anti-Semitic slogans and symbols on monuments for Holocaust victims in Estonia. The incident occurred sometime last week at the Kalevi-Liiva village in the Harju County near Tallinn, the capital of the Baltic nation of Estonia, the website News-Front reported Thursday. The monuments, erected at sites of mass killings of Jews…
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Fast Forward 2 Suspects In Custody Over Indiana Synagogue Vandalism
(JTA) — Police arrested two suspects in connection with the painting of a swastika on a synagogue in Indiana. U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler, the FBI and the Police Department of the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel announced on Thursday charges against 20-year-old Nolan Brewer and a co-conspirator who is in custody but was not named. The…
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Fast Forward Romanian Police Arrest Man Suspected Of Vandalizing Elie Wiesel’s Home
(JTA) — Romanian police arrested a 37-year-old man whom they suspect wrote anti-Semitic slogans on the childhood home of Elie Wiesel. The man, whose name police did not release to the public, is believed to have written in florescent pink graffiti on the Memorial House Elie Wiesel in Sighet in eastern Romania the words “public…
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Fast Forward Elie Wiesel’s Childhood Home In Romania Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Graffiti
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals spray painted offensive graffiti on the external walls of a museum for Elie Wiesel in Romania, where he was also born, in what police said was an anti-Semitic incident. The florescent pink graffiti that was painted on the Memorial House Elie Wiesel in Sighet in eastern Romania read “public toilet” and…
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Fast Forward Billboards Erected With Peaceful Message After Vandalism Of Indiana Synagogue
(JTA) — Billboards were erected in support of an Indiana synagogue that was targeted with anti-Semitic graffiti. The billboard’s message is “LOVE” with a Star of David inside the “O.” “We wanted to do something,” Chris Iverson, vice president and general manager of Lamar Advertising, told WISH-TV. “We just wanted to put a positive message…
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Fast Forward ‘No To Zionist’ Graffiti Painted On French Synagogue
(JTA) — Graffiti reading “no to Zionists, no to Israel” was painted on a synagogue in western France. The vandals behind the action, which was discovered on Saturday at the main Jewish house of worship in the coastal city of Le Havre, 100 miles northwest of Paris, also placed stickers displaying the Palestinian, Lebanese and…
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Fast Forward Swastika Burned Into Omaha Park Honoring Soldiers Who Fought Against Nazis
A giant swastika was burned into the lawn of a park in Omaha, Nebraska, WOWT News reported Sunday. The Nazi regime symbol was burned into the Memorial Park lawn, a place that honors American soldiers who fought against Nazi Germany in World War II. Park maintenance tilled the defamed patch of grass, according to WOWT,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Australian Lawmaker’s Office Defaced With Anti-Israel Stickers
(JTA) — Vandals defaced the headquarters of a Jewish-Australian lawmaker with anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian slogans. The glass doors of Michael Danby’s storefront headquarters in Melbourne on Saturday evening were plastered with stickers accusing the pro-Israel member of parliament of being “silent on apartheid” and “the mass murder of unarmed men, women [and] infants.” The group…
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