A restaurant in the Polish city of Gdansk has been defaced with a swastika and Star of David on Polish Independence Day. The incident is the second at the same restaurant in two weeks. Far-right groups are suspected.
Photo: Wyborcza
Source: CFCA
Category: Vandalism
An elementary school in Folsom, California has been defaced with antisemitic graffiti overnight. In the morning, swastikas, antisemitic slurs and the words “Hitler is Jesus” were found spray-painted on the school’s walls. The graffiti was swiftly removed and local police are investigating. The Anti-Defamation League has posted a $2,500 reward for information.
Source: Folsom Telegraph
A swastika has been found smeared on the wall of a student dormitory at the University of Missouri. Local police are investigating.
Source: KOMU
A Jewish cemetery in Hanover, Germany, has been vandalised with painted swastikas, and the windows of the small prayer room at the site have been smashed. Local police are investigating.
Photo: CFCA
Source: CFCA/Hanover Zeitung
Fifteen headstones have been toppled at a Jewish cemetery in Köthen, Germany, and the cemetery’s walls have been daubed with yellow paint. The vandalism is just the latest to befall the cemetery which has been targeted in the past. The damage in this attack is estimated to cost €5,000 to repair.
Photo: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
Source: CFCA/Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
Nine headstones have been toppled at a Jewish cemetery in Oud-Beijerland, Netherlands. Police have appealed for information.
Photo: Dutch Police
A member of the public found antisemitic graffiti in Polish on a wall in Norbury, London. On one part of the wall the graffiti said “RTS Jude,” an apparent reference to RTS Widzew Łódź SA, a football club. In Poland, football-related graffiti often uses the word “Jew” as an insult. On another wall graffiti saying “RTS Łódzka kurwa” was found above a Star of David, “RTS” apparently referring to the football team, with the remainder of the text meaning “Łódź whore.”
This is the second recent incident in London of antisemitic Polish graffiti relating to the same football club.
A shop in Harkány, Hungary, has been vandalised with antisemitic graffiti. Vandals smashed the windows and defaced the shop with neo-Nazi symbols.
Nine graves at the Jewish cemetery in Bielsko-Biala, Poland, have been desecrated by vandals who toppled nine headstones. The graves targeted included that of prominent local architect Karol Korn, who was responsible for the design of many of Bielsko-Biala’s prominent buildings. His grave had been recently rebuilt in 2009, after the Nazis stole the original headstone during the Second World War.
Photo: TVP Katowice
Source: CFCA/Forum Żydów Polskich
A Jewish cemetery in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania, has been vandalised. Local police have identified four youths aged 14 to 20 as suspects. The investigation continues.
Source: CFCA
A sign near the entrance to a Toronto neighbourhood with a large Jewish population has been spray-painted with the word “Jews”. Police are investigating.
The girls’ football team at Dwight-Englewood School arrived at the school’s Solomon Field to find a swastika and the word “Jews” marked out using shaving foam and eggs. Local police are reviewing CCTV footage.
A pet shop in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, has been daubed with a huge swastika and other graffiti. Local police are investigating and the pet shop owner has offered a $500 reward for information resulting in an arrest.
The Jewish cemetery in Azzafoun, Algeria, has been destroyed by vandals. The local Jewish community emigrated in the 1960s.
Photo: Tamurt
Theodore Herzl High School in Moldova has been defaced with a swastika and antisemitic slur. Police are investigating.
Photo: Actualitati.md
A church in Wezep has been sprayed with the message “Nee AZC” meaning “No asylum-seeker centre” above the Jewish Star of David.
Vanvond info bijeenkomst AZC #Wezep in kerk Noorderlicht. Lokale 'beschaving' was vannacht alvast aan de deur. pic.twitter.com/BB7WVzz9c4
— Bert-Jan Dokter (@bjdokter) September 24, 2015
A suggestions chalkboard erected by the village of Winnetka has been used by a pair of 12-year-old boys who believe that the village would benefit from “less Jews” and also “KKK”, the initials of white supremacist group Ku Klax Klan.
Photo: Gary Frank
Two unknown men have vandalised a four-metre-high menorah outside a Chabad House Jewish centre at San Diego State University. A Jewish student witnessed two men pulling one arm of the menorah which broke. The student gave chase but was unable to apprehend the men. Local police are investigating.
Photo: The Daily Aztec
The only Jewish councillor in El Paso has had his art gallery vandalised with antisemitic graffiti reading “YouTube Jews did 9/11, killed JFK”. This is the second time he has been targeted in less than a month.
Photo: El Paso Proud
A swastika has been scrawled on the memorial plaque commemorating the spot where a synagogue once stood. The swastika clearly visible despite an attempt to remove it.
A swastika and the German words for “Jews are” have been found written on the wall of a Budapest apartment building. It appears that the vandal was interrupted before the sentence was finished.
Photo: Forum Against Antisemitism
Residents of Heathland Road in London’s Stamford Hill neighbourhood have found graffiti threatening “Death to da Jew”. Police are investigating at the behest of Shomrim, the Jewish neighbourhood watch patrol.
#StamfordHill residents shocked to find #AntiSemitic graffiti on Heathland Road #N16. @MPSHackney investigating pic.twitter.com/qHte5IRCQi
— Shomrim (Stamford Hill) (@Shomrim) October 27, 2015
The graffiti was found on New York’s 187th Street, between Overlook and Fort Washington.
A “Refugees welcome” sticker at Potsdam University has been defaced with a scrawl saying “alle außen juden”, meaning “all except Jews”.
Photo: Documenting Antisemitism
Antisemitic graffiti at Ryerson University is under investigation. The graffiti read: “F*** Israel and anyone who supports the c***sucking Jews. Israel burn in Hell. Stealing Palestinian land. Motherf***ers! Spit in Israelis face.” The scrawl is signed with a crossed out Star of David.
Photo: CIJ News
Headstones at the Jewish cemetery in Šafov, Czech Republic, have been knocked over in an all-too-familiar graveyard vandalisation.
Photo: Deník
The main Jewish cemetery in Athens has been desecrated with swastikas neo-Nazi graffiti. One of the cemetery’s walls was sprayed with “F*** Jews” and a swastika. Another was sprayed with a swastika, the German word “Raus” (get out), and the letters “C18”. C18 is neo-Nazi group Combat 18, the one and the eight referring to the first and eighth letters of the alphabet, Adolf Hitler’s initials. Combat 18 Hellas posted pictures on their website and claimed responsibility for what it called the “beautiful artistic intervention at the Jewish cemetery.”
Photo: Ενάντια στον αντισημιτισμό
Memorial stones set into the pavement in Dresden, Germany, have been gouged out. The stones commemorated Jewish victims of the Nazis.
Photo: Dresden Fernsehen
New York’s landmark Stanton Street Synagogue, one of the last surviving tenement-style synagogues in the city has been vandalised. Two vandals broke in overnight, ascending the bima (platform from which the Rabbi and cantor conduct services), overturning the lectern, ripping down lamps and throwing prayer shawls and other ritual items to the floor. New York Police Department have gathered fingerprints and CCTV footage and are investigating the incident as a hate crime.
Graves in the Jewish cemetery of Hohenems have been vandalised with swastikas. Local police are investigating.
A sixteen-year-old schoolboy has been charged with criminal mischief after he painted a swastika on the wall of Pine Bush High School’s cafeteria. The area’s school board recently settled a legal dispute with Jewish parents who said their children were suffering abuse.
A menorah has been smashed to the ground by vandals outside a synagogue in Notre Dame de Grace, Montreal.
Photo: Global News
A chalkboard used for students to write each other notices at the centre of a Maryland university’s campus has been marked with phrases including “Hitler was right,” “With Jews you lose” and “Fascism just do it.”
Photo: Rebecca Altschul
A cycle path between Brewster and Harwich in Cape Cod has been vandalised with painted swastikas. The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation told CBS Boston that it has now cleaned the site.
Nice quiet ride on the Cape Cod rail trail interrupted by these not-so-painted over swastikas. Absolutely awful. pic.twitter.com/Kim7MsgMla
— Alex Goldstein (@alexjgoldstein) October 11, 2015
Swastikas and antisemitic slurs have been carved into cars, and tires have been slashed at a hall of residence at UC Davis. Eleven cars had swastikas and slurs such as “F*** Jews” carved into them. Tyres were also slashed. One student said her roommate’s tyre was slashed and told CBS Sacramento: “It jeopardised her life. She was on the freeway.” Police are investigating.
Photo: CBS Sacramento
Shomrim, the Jewish neighbourhood watch patrol has reported that a man shouted “We need to kill all the Jews” at a Jewish man leaving a synagogue in a London neighbourhood with a large Jewish population. He then broke the man’s car window.
A school in Connecticut has been hit by a wave of antisemitism. Simsbury High School student Alex Wielbbnicki told WFSB 3 Eyewitness News that he had “heard a lot of people being mean to kids who are Jewish, because of their faith.” Antisemitic graffiti including swastikas have been found in the bathrooms and in one incident a class was playing a game of Cahoot and a pupil logged in with an antisemitic screen name. The perpetrator has reportedly been identified following an investigation by the school, which also intends to follow up with an education programme to combat hatred.
Photo: WFSB News
Graffiti praising a far-right Swedish party has been discovered in Stockholm. The graffiti was sprayed on Fruängens library and included a swastika and the German phrase “Juden raus”, meaning “Jews out”.
Photo: Stockholm Direkt
Police in Minquadale, Delaware are hunting vandals who damaged almost 20 headstones in Machzikey Hadas Cemetery. The damaged caused exceeds $1,500 in value, making the crime a felony. Police are seeking surveillance footage.
In yet another arson attack on Jewish sites in Ukraine, arsonists set fire to a prayer room at a Jewish cemetery in Colomye, Prykarpattia. Police were first on the scene and extinguished the fire. The local Jewish community has offered a reward for information leading to an arrest.
Munich’s famous Haus der Kunst has been defaced with swastikas and other antisemitic graffiti. The graffiti was included four swastikas scrawled at the entrance as the gallery was opening an exhibition critical of Nazi-era art and examining the building’s own origins as part of the Nazi propaganda machine.
A room for changing babies’ nappies in a remote village on the outskirts of Lynton, Devonshire has reportedly been “covered” with antisemitic graffiti for the third time in two years. The graffiti included swastikas and slogans such as “No Jews on the moor”. Local police have appealed for witnesses.
Photo: North Devon Journal
Jewish cultural festival posters in Budapest have been defaced with “Go to the gas chambers” and other antisemitic slogans. Every face shown on the posters was marked with a swastika.
Antisemitic vandals targeted the menorah at Babyn Yar, the site the Nazis murdered over 33,000 in 1941 Jews. This is the sixth such attack on the site, taking place on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
Tyres were placed around the monument, doused with an inflammable substance and set alight. The flames were noticed and put out by the guard watching over the Ukrainian Orthodox Church nearby.
Photo: Euro-Asian Jewish Congress
Several dozen far-right Ukrainians stormed a tent encampment of ultra-Orthodox Jewish visitors in Uman, Ukraine over the weekend, destroying equipment and dismantling parts of the camp. A police force was dispatched to the area, but according to witnesses, the officers failed to intervene.
“On Shabbat, when they knew we wouldn’t be able to respond or activate the communication device, they simply knocked down the fence, pushed the light poles and security cameras and caused damage estimated at half a million dollars,” Eliezer Kirshboim, chairman and director of the Jewish association in Uman told Yedioth Ahronoth. “We are approaching the High Holidays, and this disrupts all our work arrangements.”
Photo: Russia Today
Police in Boca Raton, Florida, are investigating the spraying of graffiti on an apartment complex in Boca Raton, Florida. The graffiti consisted of a Star of David, heart and swastika, all joined by plus signs. A local resident told the Palm Beach Post that she saw four teenagers — three boys and a girl — who ran away laughing.
Photo: Lulu Ramadan, Palm Beach Post
Three men have been charged with spraying swastikas on a sign outside Camp Agudah Midwest, an Orthodox overnight camp.
They are also charged with damaging a building at the camp and spraying swastikas on a nearby picnic table and car. The incident, has caused the camp to invest in a nighttime security guard and other security measures. The attack took place during the fast day of Tisha b’Av, when Jews mourn the destruction of the ancient temples in Jerusalem. The three defendants face up to a year in jail and more than $2,000 in fines if convicted.
A playground at the Margolin Hebrew Academy in Memphis, Tennessee was vandalised with antisemitic graffiti including swastikas and slogans praising Hitler.
RIAS have received a report that a man was seen urinating against a Holocaust memorial in Berlin, Germany, over the summer.
The man, said to be white, in his 30s, with short, shaved hair, was seen desecrating the memorial on a busy street, during the day.
The Deportationsmahnmal Putlitzbrücke memorial, commemorates the site of a train station in Moabit, where over 32,000 Jews were transported from Berlin to concentration camps during the Holocaust.
Since its unveiling in 1987, the monument has been subjected to repeated acts of vandalism. In 1992, it was badly damaged in an explosives attack and had to be rebuilt.
Source: Recherche- und Informationsstelle Antisemitismus, Wikipedia