Nazi, Anti-Semitic Vandalism In Jewish Brooklyn Neighborhood Investigated As Hate Crime (VIDEO)

About 100 demonstrators held a peaceful march for tolerance just days after suspects vandalized a largely Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood with swastikas, KKK markings and other anti-Semitic symbols.

Vandals set at least three cars on fire and left traces of Nazi symbolism and profanity on benches and sidewalks along one Midwood street in the New York City borough Friday morning, the Associated Press reports.

About 27 beer bottles were also found at the scene, the New York Daily News points out. Police said they would try to lift fingerprints and DNA from the containers. The incident is being investigated as a hate crime.

Brooklyn Senator Eric Adams told Brooklyn's NY1 he was upset about the events.

"This is the symbol that is part of our dark history. That is not going to find a way in our future," he said.

The Associated Press points out the attacks occurred one day after the anniversary of Kristallnacht, a violent attack against Jewish populations in Nazi Germany when synagogues, businesses and houses were torched or destroyed.

And some people don't think it is a coincidence.

"Whoever did this are intelligent bigots," Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes told the New York Post. "Somebody was trying to make a statement."

The latest incident is among a series of other recent crimes targeting Jews, Brooklyn NY1 reports, and residents and officials are urging that all matters be thoroughly investigated.

"The police has to take notice, because it wasn't a long time ago that the world did not take notice of what was going on in Nazi Germany, and they allowed things to happen, discrimination against Jews," Brooklyn Assemblyman Joseph Lentol told the station.

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg addressed the vandalism in a statement: "...This kind of hateful act has no place in the freest city in the freest country in the world," the JTA reports.

For more on the story, watch the report from My FOX New York above.

Comments

[Allan Richter]

07:20 PM on 11/26/2011

FBI hate crime statistics: Of the 1,552 victims of an anti-religion hate crime:
■67.0 percent were victims of an offender’s anti-Jewish bias.
■12.7 percent were victims of an anti-Islamic bias.
■4.2 percent were victims of an anti-Catholic bias.
■3.0 percent were victims of an anti-Protestant bias.
■0.5 percent were victims of an anti-Atheist/Agnostic bias.
■9.1 percent were victims of a bias against other religions (anti-other religion).
■3.5 percent were victims of a bias against groups of individuals of varying religions (anti-multiple religions, group).

[Joseph Schmoe]

06:23 AM on 11/17/2011

Would those cars be any less burned to a crisp if they'd been torched by a mere arsonist instead of a perpetuator of a hate crime?
Would it be easier to remove the graffiti from a synagogue wall if it was a gang sign instead of a swastika?
Find the perpetrators. Punish the crimes. Ignore the hate and it will die because we starved it instead of fed it.

[BlueIndependent]

10:53 AM on 11/18/2011

Gangs strike randomly. Anti-semitism doesn't. It would be helpful for you not to ignore reality.

[Joseph Schmoe]

09:49 AM on 11/22/2011

It would be even more helpful for you to not invent things to make you feel better about your opinions. :-)

[gibraltar]

07:21 PM on 11/16/2011

This can't be, all crime and unpleasantness was wiped out when Bloombergs stormtroopers obliterated what was probably the cleanest and most peaceful part of NYC!

[Joseph Schmoe]

06:25 AM on 11/17/2011

It's OK. Some of us aren't cut out for working for a living and being productive members of society. I am so sorry that you'll have to move back in with your parents and drum while they're at work.

[iLdoRight]

11:43 PM on 11/15/2011

I wonder if there were any Atheist among the vandals, any Catholics, any Baptists, any Lutherans, any Jehovah's Witnesses, any Congregationalist, any Mormons, any Jewish, any Buddhists, any Republicans, any Democrats, any Independents, any Sorcerers, any Lesbians, any Zombies, any intelligentsia, and kind and decent people.

[iLdoRight]

11:32 PM on 11/15/2011

Why isn't anti-gentile in all the dictionaries?

[molare88]

07:40 PM on 11/15/2011

lol you are funny

[peter010908]

09:24 PM on 11/15/2011

But it's true.

I believe in equality and am against racism however when a group of people feel they are more special than another group, they are being racist.

[mrskorn]

10:18 PM on 11/15/2011

Maybe because Jews are not a race....so you cannot say anti-Jewish is racist. Simple. Anyone can be Jewish.

[peter010908]

10:47 PM on 11/15/2011

OK let me rephrase that, if you say anything about jewish people

[artboxone]

04:33 PM on 11/15/2011

From the FBI:

"The new hate crime statistics show anti-Jewish bias remains far and away the most prevalent form of hate crime directed at a religious group.

"In 2010, the number of anti-Jewish incidents reported in the United States totaled 887 of roughly 1,300 cases in which a religion was targeted.

"The next largest category was anti-Islamic bias, which was reported in 160 incidents. Anti-Catholic bias ranked third with 58 reported incidents.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/15/hate-crime-numbers-steady-fbi-reports/

[Satirist1]

11:12 AM on 11/15/2011

the quotient of Jewbatiing on this thread is about average for this type of website.

[looneydoone]

12:25 PM on 11/15/2011

This act was despicable ! But bear in mind the neo nazi's do not want anybody not *white xtian* in "their" country. All minority groups, and people of color are being targeted by these white supremacists, and must join together in battling them. It is, unfortunately a growing presence in the USA

[Satirist1]

01:28 PM on 11/15/2011

Your post is mostly correct.
But the Jewbating fans of Der Fuhrer in Brooklyn are of decidedly different demographic origin. See the demographic changes in Dearborn, Michigan for a clue.

[bklynsparrow]

08:26 PM on 11/16/2011

fanned and faved.

[mrskorn]

10:19 PM on 11/15/2011

Not really. Libs are high on the anti-semitic scale.

[bonnieb333]

04:57 AM on 11/17/2011

Liberals are high on the anti-semitic scale? Oh, really? So tell me, MrsKorn -- what are the statistics and where did you get them???

[geneandeddie59]

12:47 AM on 11/15/2011

It must have been a "slow hate day".... antisemitism is soooo 20th century!

[Json]

08:49 AM on 11/15/2011

LOL. New here?

[Elizabeth Schwartz]

10:59 AM on 11/15/2011

Yes, also 12th Century, 13th Century through 21st century...

[geneandeddie59]

11:22 AM on 11/15/2011

Your right... just trying to figure out why, since I can't walk in their shoes.

[kewgardensnyc]

12:16 AM on 11/15/2011

continued>>>>and Israel under the Likud party sees itself at war with virtually everyone & has hired thousands to write in positive items about Israel into forums such as this, it is prudent to be caution about this story. To accept it at face value then discover it was a hoax or Mossad ploy, does everyone and especially every Jew, a great disservice.

[Fractal122635]

09:52 AM on 11/15/2011

and ladies and gentleman, I present to you the first piece of evidence...

[Satirist1]

11:09 AM on 11/15/2011

kewgardensnyc, sure seems like your pals did it.

[cosmiczulu]

10:23 AM on 11/15/2011

so Huffington Post---it's the joooze's fault

[kewgardensnyc]

12:15 AM on 11/15/2011

There is something disturbing about this story beyond the obvious: 1) how many bigots know about the history of the persecution of the Jews in Germany and specifically, about Kristallnacht? While it has enormous meaning to many Jews, I don't think that 1 in 1000 KKK/neo-Nazi/Aryan supremists members could give you the season of the year, much less the calendar date. Although I've not read extensively, I don't see accurate history in many of their publications. 2) Midwood was once a Jewish neighborhood, now very mixed and is rapidly loosing its Jewish population and character (see Wikipedia). If the message is to directed to inject fear into Jewish hearts & minds, why not an absolutely Jewish area, say, Crown Heights or Williamsburg? If one wants to threaten Blacks, I would suggest Harlem, not the Lower East Side.
Given that the young Jewish woman at the university who piously denounced anti-Semitism via swastikas on her door--which she was secretly filmed painting on, one must wonder. Especially when beer bottles which may or may not be associated with the crime are all over. Bigots generally are in the fingerprint system for one reason or another--petty theft, wife beating, etc. To leave such obvious evidence is curious. Also, even the US press has been critical of Israel recently--the organ harvesting bust in NJ hasn't helped Jewish or Israeli image. Given that the Mossad's public slogan is: "By way of Deception, thou shalt do war"

[cosmiczulu]

10:25 AM on 11/15/2011

subtle
but still a hater

[mommamia526]

12:22 PM on 11/15/2011

Not so subtle. Vile.

[Satirist1]

11:11 AM on 11/15/2011

I'd like to see things from your point of view, kew, but I can't seem to stoop so low

[empress trudy]

04:36 PM on 11/14/2011

I would spend exactly zero minutes listening to progressives pretend to wring their hands over antisemitism. Most of them ignore it and the best or worst of them, depending on how you look at it, openly adopt it themselves. Quick someone ask Phil Weiss (mondoweiss) what he thinks. He'll probably laugh and quietly kick his can of lighter fluid under the desk.

[GZLives]

01:06 PM on 11/15/2011

Or MJ Kapoberg right here on HP

[Json]

02:43 PM on 11/15/2011

I really wish you would stop blaming liberals and progressives. You can't lump anti-semitism into a neat little package and blame it all on one group. (I suppose you CAN, but you are doing us all a disservice by doing so.)

[empress trudy]

03:12 PM on 11/15/2011

I really wish I didn't have to. It's your ticket price to the show and its unfortunate.

[mommamia526]

01:10 PM on 11/16/2011

I have this to give you to consider. Liberals, and progressives, used to stand for equal rights, opportunity, standing together with the less fortunate, looking at actual facts and taking religious ideologies out of the equation. Marxism, which started liberal and progressive movements, took religion out of the equation altogether. Today liberals have no idea of the ideals which started liberalism. We see that in Israel socalled *progressives* from the outside, foreign nationals, demand to take away the rights of the Israelis to determine their own government through elections. They meddle in affairs and side with one religious sect against all others. They unite against the U.S., Israel and others, and with those who commit crimes against humanity, and use the cover of their religion to do it. These criminal acts, terror, murder, suicide bombers are USED against anyone, including their own populations. None so blind as today's *liberals*.

[thebearclaw007]

03:24 PM on 11/14/2011

"This is the symbol that is part of our dark history. That is not going to find a way in our future," BRAVO!!!!!

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg addressed the vandalism in a statement: "...This kind of hateful act has no place in the freest city in the freest country in the world," the JTA reports.

I remember Mr. Dix's articles about how Blacks and Latinos were being pulled over and frisked simply for being people of color, which makes the last comment ring untrue. What's up with that Mayor?

[smcircle]

05:41 PM on 11/15/2011

Are we going to segregate and rate discrimination? Any against any is nasty no matter how it is labeled and targeted....

[thebearclaw007]

07:52 PM on 11/15/2011

Aren't we doing anyway undercover?

[Whitemuslim]

06:57 PM on 11/16/2011

Unless, of course, it's against Muslims. Then it's okay.

[bilbao2793]

01:38 PM on 11/14/2011

There is as much modern racism in the North as in the South.

[thebearclaw007]

03:40 PM on 11/14/2011

It's like a plague. Then, when you mention things such as whites (Christians or not), not successfully teaching their children to practice good over evil and right over wrong they ask for specific examples when examples such as this are so prevalent. However, to be fair, racism isn't just a white problem; it was simple started by them in the United States. Americans get a grip.

[bklynsparrow]

08:37 PM on 11/16/2011

Racsim wasn't begun by Americans. Racism is as old as the Human race.But what makes it so much worse in America is that we were supposedly founded on principles of liberty and equality. Of course we still had slavery ad women didn't have the vote until the early 20th century, among numerous other laws that belied the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. we set a high bar for our country and then we didn't meet it.

[oceanview136]

01:03 PM on 11/14/2011

The Brooklyn District Attorney said "Whoever did this are intelligent bigots". Well I have news for the District Attorney. Bigots are NEVER intelligent, because if they were, they WOULDN'T be bigots !!!!!!!

[NELLIEGREY]

02:31 PM on 11/14/2011

The OWS is branching out to get more attention to their cause. Time to end this type of hatred of fellow humans

[GraphicMatt]

02:58 PM on 11/14/2011

And you know that OWS was involved in this how exactly?

[thebearclaw007]

03:42 PM on 11/14/2011

I totally agree with that!

[June25]

02:35 PM on 11/14/2011

Never underestimate your enemy.Just a few guys with boxcutters brought down the Word Trade Center.

[longtimegone]

02:05 AM on 11/15/2011

Please, do some research.