Tag: swastika

"Last week he entered the lobby of his school and there was a Palestinian flag hanging from the balcony above. The security had to wait for NYPD to come in to protect them and only then removed it."

The woman was taken to a local emergency room and is not in a life-threatening condition.

“Prayer documents” were removed by the vandal at the Yoga Hell studio on East 17th Street, and “religious items were damaged.”

ADL: “Not only was this student targeted for his identifiable faith, but he was particularly vulnerable due to his disability."

“This vile act shows us that Jew-hatred is alive and well in Canada,” according to Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Forest Hills resident Antoine Blount, 34, was arrested Monday on nine counts of aggravated harassment and three counts of misdemeanor criminal mischief as a hate crime.

The suspects had an illegal Glock 17, 30 bullets, a hunting knife and a swastika armband.

Is it possible that those three swastikas on Long Island were not etched by a team of hate-spewing neo-Nazis?

The swastika, which was used by the Nazis to depict their Teutonic heritage, did not stand before that era for antisemitism or Nazism.

The New York City Police Department has released video footage of a suspect they are hoping to identify for drawing a swastika in front of a Jewish high school in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn.

The Metropolitan Police Department and the Amtrak Police are investigating the offense as potentially being motivated in whole or in part by hate or bias.

The branch manager told her “the Secret Service will probably get involved.”

The protesters with the warped notion of historic symbols rallied against Dinowitz's bill that would require all New York students to be vaccinated in order to attend school.

the young suspect had been taken into custody and later released under investigation.

“Herschel is a strong friend of Israel and the Jewish community and opposes hatred and bigotry of all forms."

Spokesman Ned Price said there were no updates, but that it remained a priority.

Michael Park, 32, was first arrested on Saturday after police responded to a report of an assault of a 33-year-old Jewish man.

It isn't clear how long it had been since the desecration, because the prayer room had been closed for months on account of coronavirus pandemic.

Rabbi Yossie Shemtov, executive director of Chabad Lubavitch of Tucson, stated: “We are determined not to be affected by this distressing incident and will continue serving the wider community.”

The white stickers, which say “We are everywhere” and include the Nazi symbol in the middle, were first discovered at a bar called “Mad Myrna’s,” and later in the day, at the Jewish museum.

“Acts of hate like this are disgraceful and cowardly; that swastikas vandalized a home of Jewish students is especially reprehensible,” university leaders wrote in a joint statement.

Surveillance footage shows a suspect drawing a swastika on a “private property” sign at the Rego Park Jewish Center in Queens, N.Y.

The Greek government spokesman Stelios Petsas, Education Minister Niki Kerameus, and Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias condemned the anti-Semitic crime.

Neighbors reported on Monday the large bright yellow swastika on the hood of a car. The windshield was covered in paint as well. The police were notified.

“I’m upset and outraged by it—that we are targeted like that—but at the same time I’m not entirely surprised,” said Temple Sinai chair Matthew Smith.

He is to remain in hospital another 12 months, completing a total of 2 years’ treatment, more than the maximum 45-day jail sentence.

Officers said he used orange paint to draw a swastika on the front steps of the temple and “F U Black Shirt” on the doors of the synagogue.

Police waited to release the surveillance video, but are doing so now, hoping someone will recognize the perpetrator.

This was a second offense -- the swastika on his uncle's head was only the one the staff couldn't wash off.

All 14 complaint calls came from Stedwick Village.