Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By admin on July 12, 2017

A vandal was caught on surveillance video last week drawing more than two dozen swastikas in freshly poured concrete in front of a New York City building whose owners are Jewish.

The concrete was poured Friday on the sidewalk outside a building in Brooklyn. The building's street surveillance camera captured a young man spending 35 minutes drawing nearly 30 swastikas in the still-wet cement early Saturday.

State Assemblyman Dov Hikind of Brooklyn says the property owners discovered the vandalism Monday and alerted police. He says the video has been turned over to the New York Police Department. The incident is being investigated as a hate crime.

In April, the Anti-Defamation League reported an alarming spike in anti-Semitic incidents in the first quarter of 2017.

The ADL's "Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents," published on its website, noted a sharp increase in the harassment of American Jews, including double the incidents of bullying of schoolchildren and vandalism at nondenominational grade schools. Overall, the number of acts targeting Jews and Jewish institutions rose by 34% in 2016, to 1,266, and jumped by 86% in the first three months of this year, the report said.

The incidents were felt across the country but, continuing a consistent trend, the states with the highest number of incidents tended to be those with large Jewish populations and included California, New York, New Jersey, Florida, and Massachusetts.

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Wednesday July 12, 2017 - Israel Hayom

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