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Several synagogues and homes successful nan New York borough of Queens were vandalized overnight Monday pinch swastikas, according to nan metropolis assembly speaker.
On Monday, Julie Menin, on pinch different metropolis assembly members including Lynn Schulman and Phil Wong, visited Congregation Machane Chodosh, 1 of nan sites targeted successful Forest Hills.
In a statement online, Menin said: “When rabbis and congregants arrived to believe this morning, they expected to beryllium met pinch their accustomed loving community. When a family woke up, they were prepared to statesman an different normal week. Instead, they were met pinch terrifying signals of hatred and threats of violence.”
Photos shared online showed achromatic swastikas spray-painted connected synagogue walls, a car shed doorway pinch nan awesome circled successful red, and what appeared to beryllium nan model of a adjacent residence.
Menin said she and nan different assembly members visited aggregate vandalized locations and are successful interaction pinch police, who are investigating and searching for astatine slightest 4 individuals. She added that nan graffiti will beryllium removed erstwhile nan investigation is complete.
The Guardian has contacted New York constabulary and nan agency of Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s mayor, for comment.
In January, 2 teenagers were arrested and charged pinch dislike crimes aft dozens of swastikas were recovered painted connected a playground successful Brooklyn.
After that incident, Mamdani condemned nan vandalism, saying he was “sickened by this antisemitic vandalism,” adding: “Antisemitism has nary spot successful our city, and I guidelines enarthrosis to enarthrosis pinch nan Jewish New Yorkers who were targeted.”
