Tag: anti-Semitic Vandalism
Anti-Semitic vandalism strikes Jewish sites in France, Greece and Ukraine
Anti-Jewish vandalism has struck France, Greece and Ukraine within the past week.
About a dozen graves were vandalized in the Jewish cemetery of Bayonne, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques area, in southwest France.
The damage was sighted by...
LA synagogue vandalized with anti-Semitic message
Temple Ahavat Shalom, a Reform congregation in Los Angeles, was vandalized with an anti-Semitic message.
A message of “Six million $ was not enough” was drawn in marker on the welcome sign on the temple’s...
What to do after ‘slaughter the Jews’ is spray-painted in Arabic on part of...
A young Arab girl and her older teenage sister spray-painted the words “slaughter the Jews” in Arabic on Friday on the Kotel HaKatan (“little wall” in Hebrew), a portion of the Western Wall on...
ADL: Anti-Semitic incidents lower in 2018, but assaults and vandalism doubled
There were 1,879 anti-Semitic incidents in 2018, representing the third-highest figure of such incidents since 1979, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League released on Tuesday.
The highest number of anti-Semitic incidents was in...
Oklahoma City reels from anti-Semitic, white-nationalist graffiti attacks
Over the last week, swastikas, anti-Semitic, anti-LGBT, racist white-nationalist symbols and epithets defaced five public places in Oklahoma City and Norman, starting at the state’s Oklahoma City-based Democratic Party headquarters. Similar incidences of graffiti...
Synagogue vandalized in Basel during Shabbat, won’t affect menorah-lighting
In yet another incident of apparent anti-Semitism, a window of a synagogue in Basel, Switzerland, was smashed with a hammer on Saturday morning while congregants were inside.
The damage was discovered that morning as worshippers...
Jewish Columbia professor finds swastikas, ‘Yid,’ spray-painted in office
A Jewish professor at Columbia University in New York was the target of anti-Semitic vandalism on Wednesday, walking into her office to discover two red swastikas and the slur “Yid” spray painted on the...
Vandals in Belgium damage Holocaust memorial
Vandals damaged a Holocaust memorial in the Belgian city of Ghent, some 50 kilometers west of Brussels, on the eve of a Kristallnacht (“Night of the Broken Glass”) commemoration.
The so-called Michaël Lustig monument, in...
Anti-Semitic vandalism cases follow Pittsburgh shooting
Days after 11 people were shot and killed at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue on Saturday, two vandalism incidents have further rocked the American Jewish community.
On Tuesday, Ben Jacob Congregation in Irvine, Calif.,...
Synagogues vandalized as Iran declares Jerusalem ‘capital of Palestine’
Shiraz Jewish community says has no leads vandals' identities, believes attack related to Trump Jerusalem move
A second synagogue in southern Iran was reported vandalized on Wednesday, with attackers damaging Torah scrolls, prayer books, and...