- Arizona: Phoenix police are working to determine whether a swastika and drawings believed to represent the Ku Klux Klan that were found spray painted on an Ahwatukee wall this weekend are linked to other derogatory graffiti found in recent months. The graffiti, found in the 11000 block of South Bannock Street on a wall that faces the Warner-Elliot loop, was reported to police at about 9 a.m. Saturday. It has already been painted over, Phoenix Police Sgt. Leonard Pinuelas said. Pinuelas said police do not think it is a hate crime and believe it could be "juveniles frequenting the area." He said he is not sure if it is connected to other recently created graffiti in Ahwatukee.
- California: Nobel laureate and Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel was dragged from an elevator and roughed up during a peace conference at a San Francisco hotel, according to police. (Feb. 10)
- California: A spray-painted swastika on the wall of San Francisco’s largest synagogue on the eve of Passover is being investigated as a hate crime, according to police Sgt. Neville Gittens. Security personnel at the Congregation Emanu-El discovered the mark on their Lake Street temple Monday morning. "A swastika was painted on the side of the building that was described to me as being about 10 inches tall, blue in color. This was discovered at about 11:05," said Gittens. Rabbi Stephen Pearce said there have been one or two similar incidents at the temple in the past 25 years.
- California: Nazi swastikas were found spray-painted on a garage door at one house, on a neighboring mailbox and on the street itself. Racial slurs also were found on the spray-painted mailbox. A 14-year-old girl was arrested Wednesday night in connection with the incident.
- California: San Francisco’s Emanu-El synagogue, the largest in the city, was defaced with swastikas over the Passover festival. Congregants discovered the vandalism Monday morning. San Francisco’s mayor condemned the Nazi graffiti. "San Francisco is known as a city that embraces people of all faiths," Mayor Gavin Newsom told CBS news. "We strongly condemn this act of hatred and intolerance."
- California: In May, the office of a Los Angeles City Council member was defaced with swastikas and other racial slurs.
- California: In August, a car parked in the Granada Hills neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley was vandalized with spray paint. The vandals painted "Die Jew" and other hate-filled words.
- California: According to community spokesperson Isaac Abraham, at least one swastika was painted inside a building at Bedford Gardens, a residential complex that is home to nearly 700 tenants, where most of the residents are Jewish. The complex is part of the Mitchell-Lama housing program, and according to Abraham, this is just the latest of several similar incidents which have occurred in the eight-building complex in the past year. A swastika and an anti-Semitic remark were written on a sand trap, which a resident photographed before raking over.
- California: In an interview James D. Watson asks rhetorically, "Should you be allowed to make an anti-Semitic remark?" He answered: "Yes, because some anti-Semitism is justified. Just like some anti-Irish feeling is justified. If you can't be criticized, that's very dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society." Apparently a firm believer in eugenics, Watson also feels "Ashkenazi Jews" - Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities in the area of Germany - have higher intelligence than other people. "I've wondered why people aren't more intelligent," Watson says. "Why isn't everyone as intelligent as Ashkenazi Jews? And it may be that societies work best when there's a mixture of ability - the bright people would never be an army." Scientist James D. Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and a Nobel Prize winner
- California: Pacifica police are hunting for the vandal or vandals who ignited a blaze in a storage closet and littered the walls of Oceana High School with anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic slogans in the wee hours of the morning Tuesday, April 24. The vandalism comes on the heels of a similar instance earlier this month at South San Francisco High School. Vandals spray-painted anti-Semitic and racist epithets on the walls and committed $8,000 worth of damage; a juvenile suspect has been charged with felony vandalism.
- California: In May, a Jewish home in Los Angeles was defaced with swastikas, KKK and other anti-Semitic graffiti.
- California: In May, a vandal glued drawings of swastikas and two anti-Semitic messages to the front of the Sherman Oaks office of Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss. Epoxied to the glass front door were three 8 1/2 -by-11-inch sheets of paper, each showing the Nazi flag in color. Another sheet, glued above Weiss' name on the door, contained a printed message: "Mein Fuhrer Die Office Official of Natziesque Extraordinaire." The final sheet contained a long message that began: "Our policy: we have no time to listen to Jewish American children!!! If you don't believe us, just try talking to us…. Hail Weiss!"
- California: Two weeks after the above incident: A California JCC received an anti-Semitic letter. Officials at the Valley Cities Jewish Community Center in Sherman Oaks notified police on Wednesday that they had received the letter, according to a news report. Police are investigating the letter as a hate "incident" rather than a hate "crime" because no violent threats were used.
- California: In June, swastikas were pained on a news stand in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Los Angeles.
- California: In August, a large red swastika was discovered painted on the sidewalk in front of a Los Angeles synagogue.
- Connecticut: Vandals leaned a plastic Israel Fair sign splayed with anti-semetic slurs and swastikas against a School Road resident's mailbox Friday. The incident is being investigated as a hate crime. No arrests have been made but Wilton police said they are treating the matter seriously. The incident comes three weeks after another incident in which vandals spray painted swastikas and phallic symbols on a garage on April 1. Police made no arrests in that incident either. Police are still investigating that incident.
- In Connecticut, police are investigating what they called a "bias crime" after a swastika was sprayed on the garage of an Olmstead Hill Road home. According to homeowner Jeanne Roberts, the swastika was on the middle of her garage door, though it looked like the vandals had second thoughts and sprayed the bottom in different directions.
Connecticut: WEST HARTFORD - Police are trying to trace the origin of an anti-Semitic cartoon that was mailed to several residents who spoke at a public hearing on the town budget last month. West Hartford police began the investigation last week after receiving a complaint from one of the recipients. "It's anti-Semitic," she said. "They took it as anti-Semitic." The cartoon, Police Chief Jim Strillacci said, depicts a teacher and student before a chalkboard with words referring to the 6 million who died in the Holocaust; a book labeled the diary of Anne Frank is stuffed in the student's mouth. Connecticut: Police in Glastonbury are asking for the public's help to find the person responsible for anti-Semitic vandalism. A sign for the Chabad East of the River Jewish Center was defaced with a six-inch swastika and the word 'Jewish' was altered to read 'Jew'. The sign was posted at the intersection of Main and Griswold Street (in July). Florida: In March, a swastika was drawn on a Warning sign of a public lake in Hollywood, Florida. Florida: It was a shocking discovery at a Cape Coral ball park when eight cars were found vandalized - one with a swastika painted on it. Cape police say it all happened during a Little League baseball practice. Some of the cars were painted with curse words, some had been broken into, but parents say the car with the swastika painted on its window was the most disturbing. "It was everything from a swastika to windows painted," said victim Richard Churlin. "They hit about 10 cars altogether." Florida: In August, a swastika and the word "Kike" were drawn in pen on the wall of a synagogue in Boca Raton. - Georgia: A metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia official has resigned her position after posting anti-Israel remarks on a web site. Cherokee County Planning Commission member Mary Catarineau wrote last month that Israel "was artificially created to provide a place for Jews to avoid persecution after the Holocaust. The Holocaust is not going to recur, and Israel has caused nothing but problems. Jews can remain or leave, but give the land back to the Muslims."
- Idaho: A memorial to Holocaust victim Anne Frank in Boise was vandalized over the weekend, two months after the same site was hit by neo-Nazi stickers. Vandals toppled the bronze statue of the Jewish-German girl, whose diary written while hiding from the Nazis during World War Two has made her a revered human-rights figure. The statue of Frank, who died in a concentration camp, was damaged on the head and the finger. In March, somebody plastered the site with swastika stickers from the group Combat 18.
- Illinois: (March) Anti-Semitic vandalism of a stairwell outside Alderman Bernard Stone's office included slurs such as "Death to the Jews." The incident comes one week after ADL's 2006 Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents showed that anti-Semitic incidents in Illinois nearly doubled from 2005. Ald. Bernie Stone (50th) is calling for cooler heads to prevail after he received a racist flyer in the mail. Stone, who represents West Rogers Park in the City Council, is running against three opponents. The envelope contained a campaign flyer with a picture of Stone and Mayor Richard M. Daley. Stone's face was blurred out by a swastika, while an X was drawn across Mayor Daley's face.
- Illinois: In April, anti-Semitic graffiti was painted outside the home of a family believed to be Jewish. Their cars were also vandalizes. The incident happened in Dacatur, Illinois. As it turns out, the family was not even Jewish.
- Illinois: Chicago police are investigating the Passover eve spraying of graffiti on the walls of a Chicago synagogue. Anti-Israel messages, including "Death to Israel," were painted in English and in Arabic. "This is what American Jews have to look forward to. You can hear the deafening silence," said Jack Berger, a Chicago Jewish community leader.
- Iowa: Navy veteran David Miller said that when he checked into the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Iowa City, he didn’t realize he would get a hard sell for Christian fundamentalism along with treatment for his kidney stones. Miller, 46, an Orthodox Jew, said he was repeatedly proselytized by hospital chaplains and staff in attempts to convert him to Christianity during three hospitalizations over the past two years. He said he went hungry each time because the hospital wouldn’t serve him kosher food, and the staff refused to contact his rabbi, who could have brought him something to eat. Miller, an Iowa City resident and former petty officer third class who spent four years in the Navy, outlined his complaints at a news conference in Des Moines on Thursday. He described the Iowa City facility as an institution permeated by government sponsorship of fundamentalist Christianity and unconstitutional discrimination against Jews. Miller has been classified as 100 percent disabled because of chronic painful problems with kidney stones, and he has repeatedly visited the center as a patient and outpatient. The hospital’s chaplains and staff, Miller said, have the attitude that you either accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior and you are saved, or you are damned. He said he has tried to resolve the problems with the hospital’s administration without success. “I am not trying to get rid of the chaplain corps,” Miller said. “When I was in the Navy, I was a religious program specialist. I worked with Christian chaplains, and I believe in the value of the chaplain corps, but not using it to bludgeon people, for heaven’s sake.” Kirt Sickels, a spokesman for the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Iowa City, said the facility’s administrators take Miller’s allegations seriously.
- Massachusetts: Laura Myers, director of the New Jewish Academy in Worcester, said eight windows were smashed there over the weekend. The New Jewish Academy and another school nearby were also vandalized. Robert F. Pezzella, executive assistant to the superintendent for school safety and violence prevention, said a custodian discovered vandalism Saturday morning at Flagg Street School. Over the past two weeks, the New Jewish Academy has been spray-painted with anti-Semitic remarks. “It’s been very disheartening,” Ms. Myers said. “We are very concerned about it.” Mr. Pezzella agrees, "We feel it could be repeat offenders. The callousness of the graffiti shows we have a severe crime here.” The Flagg Street School was spray-painted over Memorial Day weekend as well. Mr. Pezzella said several anti-Semitic remarks were found. Police will have to determine if the graffiti meets the criteria of a hate crime, but school officials want it treated as such.
- Michigan: In early October, a home in Dearborn Heights displayed an anti-Israel banner that featured Nazi swastics beside a jewish star.
- New Jersey: In the heavily-Jewish populated Bergen County region of New Jersey, swastikas and anti-Jewish graffiti were found engraved into the playground of a Wallington park on Passover eve. Bergen County Police spokesman Kevin Hartnett said, "We run into graffiti in the parks all the time, but we don't see these types of possible bias crimes often.”
- New Jersey: According to Manalapan Police Chief Stuart Brown, an unknown person wrote the word "Jew" and drew a swastika on a student's poster depicting Albert Einstein that was hanging on a wall in the gymnasium at the Manalapan Eng-lishtown Middle School (MEMS). A school administrator called police to report the incident during school hours on March 29.
- New Jersey: A swastika and a racial slur were found scrawled on a United Parcel Service drop-off box in Downtown Jersey City Tuesday night, reports said. A resident called police after seeing the word "DIE," followed by the "n-word," written on the UPS box at Marin Boulevard and York Street, reports said. Police officers responded at 9 p.m. and found the phrase and a swastika written in pink marker on the side of the box, reports said. Officers tried unsuccessfully to contact UPS to have the racist graffiti removed, reports said. Police reports do not say if it has been removed since then.
- New Jersey: A rabbi has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the township where he lives, saying local officials are conducting an illegal surveillance of his house and restricting his right to pray at his home. The federal lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Trenton on behalf of Avraham Bernstein, who is represented by the Rutherford Institute, a Charlottesville, Va.-based civil liberties group that focuses on First Amendment and religious freedom cases. At issue is whether Bernstein, a rabbi with the ultraorthodox Lubavitch Chabad, is allowed to host a minyon, the necessary 10 men to pray under orthodox Jewish law, at his home on Shabbat, Friday night to Saturday night. The Monmouth County township says he is violating local zoning ordinances because he is using his home as a house of worship, according to the lawsuit. Bernstein received a zoning violation in February 2007 and a summons in April; in May he filed a lawsuit in New Jersey Superior Court. The township retaliated by "secretly setting up a video camera,'' aimed at the Bersteins' home, which is operated on Friday afternoon before Shabbat until its conclusion on Saturday, the lawsuit alleges. Bernstein invites friends to celebrate the holiday with them. Since they are not allowed to drive, many are neighbors who walk.
- New Jersey: A swastika roughly the size of a FOOTBALL FIELD was carved in a cornfield in Mercer County.
- New York: Yonkers (March) - Jewish and Christian religious leaders decried the painting of a red swastika on a Yonkers synagogue today. The swastika was discovered on an exterior wall at Temple Emanu-El, 306 Rumsey Road, at 5:24 a.m. The vandalism comes just five days before congregation members, along with Jews all over the world, begin observing the weeklong holiday of Passover on Monday. Rabbi Allen Kaplan of Temple Emanu-El said that the congregation has experienced nothing like this during its 40 years in the building. "This is a hate crime," he said. "They chose a swastika, a red swastika. That is a statement. This is a hate crime."
- New York: What many local residents consider a hate crime, signs of racial animosity have been carved in concrete on the beach block of Beach 114 Street in Rockaway Park and have remained there for months despite complaints to city agencies. This Swastika, the symbol of Nazi Germany was clearly carved into the concrete when it was newly-poured several months ago, residents say.
- New York (Crown Heights): In September, a group of black teens began attacking Jewish residents of Crown Heights, by shouting anti-Semitic slurs, and physically assaulting anyone Jewish that met their path. Shmira were called, upon responding to the call Shmira members began restraining the group, but were disappointed by police officers who showed up, and instead of arresting the attackers, the police arrested two Yeshiva boys.
- New York (Long Island): Nassau County police are investigating a bias incident at a Plainview park. Authorities say a swastika, anti-Semitic slurs, and racial slurs were spray painted on signs, bleacher seats, and a slide at a playground at Lindsay Street and Sally Lane. The perpetrators hit the park sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning. The Town of Oyster Bay is removing the graffiti.
- Hollywood/New York: Law and Order's Anti-Semitic episode questions Jewish loyalty: The plot line of the February 27 installment of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, a fictional police drama broadcast across America on NBC, centers on a journalist who is poisoned after his girlfriend uncovers a foul-up by Israeli intelligence. The show depicts Israeli bulldozers destroying Palestinian schools, with at least one character referring to "Israeli brutality."
It also includes a Jewish police captain who agrees to cover up for Israel by shutting down a criminal investigation at the urging of the head of the local pro-Israel group. In one scene, after Captain Danny Ross tells his officers to halt their investigation, Detective Mike Logan confronts him and asks, "Are you a Jew first and a cop second?" - New York (Columbia University): Students and faculty joined together at the Teachers College Monday to denounce the latest manifestation of hate at Columbia in a month that has seen a noose posted outside the office of a black professor and fliers promoting a Holocaust-denial book mailed to Midlarsky and another professor just days before the swastika attack. Some have drawn a connection between the recent increase of racist attacks with Columbia's inviting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at Columbia and the recent tenure approval given to Nadia Abu El Haj at Barnard.
- Pennsylvania: A rough drawing of a building labeled “Jewish library” with missiles headed toward it was found in a Princeton University common room. Also in the path of the missiles were stick figures labeled “little Jews.” A swastika graced the top of the sketch. Jewish students presume the drawing is a reference to a Jewish fundraising drive for an elementary school in northern Israel damaged during the Second Lebanon War last summer.
- Pennsylvania: According to Herky Pollock, the incident occurred Thursday, May 3, at Mortons Steakhouse, Downtown, while Pollock and two friends were dining there. David Sunseri, owner of the Pennsylvania Macaroni Company, was invited to join them for a drink. After a short time, Pollock said, Sunserie started to complain about the bread. "'He then picked up the bread and proceeded to squeeze it, break it and show it off to two waiters, while echoing the same sentiments to them. He then launched into the following statement, 'only Jews would like this bread.'" Pollock said he asked Sunseri if he meant all Jews. "'He replied 'No, just Pittsburgh Jews.' To which I asked 'why?' He replied that 'Pittsburgh Jews had no taste....'" The other two diners at the table, neither of whom is Jewish, confirmed Pollock's account of the incident when contacted by The Chronicle. David Sunseri has apparently apologized for the remarks.
- Ohio: Justice Denied: John Demjanjuk, the retired autoworker accused of
being a Nazi concentration camp guard, appears likely to live out his days in the United States. No other country is willing to accept the 87-year-old, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported. - Oregon: (Justice achieved) a far-right extremist has been sentenced to more than eleven years in federal prison for an attack on the synagogue in Eugene, Oregon, in 2002. According to federal prosecutors Jacob Laskey, 26, who calls himself a white supremacist, admitted as part of a plea bargain that he wanted to commit acts of violence against Jews, blacks and other ethnic or racial groups. Laskey admitted throwing rocks etched with swastikas through stained glass windows at Temple Beth Israel while about 80 people were inside attending a service.
- Virginia: (February) The word "Jew" also was painted on a gym wall behind the seats of Bishop Sullivan Catholic High School students attending the Feb. 2 game at Norfolk Academy, said Dennis W. Price, principal of the Virginia Beach school. Price who also watched the game, said the rivals exchanged chants, "Then, at some point, our students were chanting, 'We love Jesus.'" "It was obviously in reference to the Jewish population of Norfolk Academy; that's the only way you can take that," he added.
- Virginia: In September, graffiti was painted on a wall in a parking lot in Burke, Virginia. Two images were drawn, showing one large stick figure with a swastika over his head shown pointing a gun and shooting a bullet at the smaller figure, which had a Jewish star painted above its head.
- Virginia: In August, anti-Semitic epithets, a swastika, and other graffiti was painted on the pavement in the parking lot of a synagogue in Richmond.
- Washington: (March)Two Centralia men were accused of spray painting swastikas and white power slogans in Pullman. Seattle police are investigating a spate of racist and anti-Semitic graffiti in the Seward Park neighborhood. According to police reports, vandals early Friday morning struck at least five vehicles parked near Lake Washington Boulevard South between Mount Baker Park and Seward Park. Police believe all events are related. At the homes of two families, vandals spray painted anti-black statements on several cars. According to police statements, some of those targeted are black. Several blocks away, a car belonging to a Jewish family was painted with a Star of David. The family had a mezuzah -- a traditional Jewish sign of faith -- near the entrance to their home, but investigating officers said in reports that it was unlikely vandals would have seen it from the street. Profanity also was painted on a boat parked in front of another home in the area. According to police reports, all the victims interviewed by officers said they were unaware they had any enemies in the neighborhood.
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