"Die Jews" And Swastikas Spray Painted On Midwood Buildings

(Courtesy Councilmember David Greenfield's Twitter)

Police are investigating a rash of weekend hate crimes in Midwood, Brooklyn, where swastikas were spray painted on three buildings, along with the words "Die Jews" on a garage door. The garage door vandalism occurred at a private residence located 100 feet away Assemblyman Dov Hikind's home, and the politician says the latest outburst of anti-Semitism has local residents increasingly alarmed. Midwood has one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors in America, and Hikind says, "You wouldn't believe the comments that I hear. 'Does this mean something? Is this the beginning of something?' I tell them no because this is America."

The "Die Jews" message is believed to have been left sometime before midnight Saturday, and two swastikas were also painted on the door of an apartment building at across the street. On Sunday morning, two big swastikas were also found on the Yeshiva of Brooklyn school on Ocean Parkway and Avenue L. "For children to come to school to see a swastika on their school is really shocking and appalling and it's unacceptable," Councilman David Greenfield tells NBC New York. "And it's just not the kind of behavior we expect in New York City, which has the largest Jewish population in the country."

This is just the latest in a string of anti-Semitic vandalism in the neighborhood. In November, vandals torched three cars, tried to burn a fourth, and scrawled anti-semitic graffiti on a nearby van and benches. (Investigators have made no arrests, and they now suspect the graffiti was scrawled after the firebombings to make it look like a hate crime, when it was actually an insurance scam.) Later that month, an Avenue J subway sign in Midwood was found vandalized with the words "Avenue Jew."

“We are very afraid,” Sharon Miltz, the 56-year-old homeowner whose garage was defaced tells the Daily News. “We don't know why this is happening.”

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By John Del Signore in News on January 16, 2012 9:22 AM

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Roy Caratozzolo

Odd that this is occurring allot all of a sudden.... However with all separatist groups, religious or otherwise, you will always have people that hate the fact that your separatism makes you look elitist.... at least to those not within your group....

Midnight Fapper

There's no doubt in my mind this is a hoax. Look how sloppy those swastikas are. Any self-respecting Neo-Nazi knows that symbol like the back of his hand.

Wesley Main

Shittiest graff ever. You can tell the JEWS that orchestrated this bs have never handled a spray can.

Fern Cohen

Why is racism against people of color taken seriously, but anti-Semitic behavior orchestrated by Jews? Again, the double standard...if it said "Die N---ers", there would be a lot of compassion on these boards.

DrSysz

I guess maybe cause in NYC we are a little more hip to bullshit than most places - at least traditionally. Most of us have been watching the political use of paranoia and supposed racism by assholes like Hikind grow over the past few decades into a cottage industry not based on any reality whatsoever. There is no wave of anti-Jewish sentiment in NYC. To paraphrase Lenny Bruce - "In NYC everyone is Jewish - even the Goyim." And this is true even today in the far blander yuppie town we call NYC.

Also - smart people don't get their panties in a twist every time some asshole spouts a stupid opinion. Whether it's black dolls in nooses or badly drawn graffiti - only opportunists and paranoids blow this shit up into major cases.

I'm old and while NYC is fucked up and nothing like the awesome universe unto itself it used to be - neither is it the seething cauldron of ethnic hatreds and violence it traditionally was. Shit has calmed down A LOT over the past 30 years and people mostly get along just fine considering how different all our lifestyles are. But ethnic peace doesn't serve everyone's interests.....

canofpeas

Because in this case, it was.

jisnotused

They look more like wavy tube men

jarret kerr

'Does this mean something? Is this the beginning of something?' I tell them no because this is America."
exactly! This is America, do you think some goober with a can of spray paint is possibly capable of orchestrating something as massive as the holocaust? He's a jobless, racist, idiot. I think everyone can calm down and just paint over it.

John Smith

You call that a swastika? I'm surprised they spelled "die" correctly.

J_Temperance

Seriously. It's so sloppy the way "E" runs into the swastika and what's with the placement of the two smaller swastika's? I'm more offended by the hate graffiti artist's aesthetic than his message (although both are pretty offensive).

Roger_the_Shrubber

Does Al Sharpton have an alibi?

robingee

Do you?

ElvisShalit

Perpetuating the idea of a lynching and a "New wave" of anti-semitism is the only way politicians stay in buisiness .To go into mid-wood is a real stretch and too suspicious. I fully believe this is definitely an action done by people who were contracted to do so. There are alot of people wholl prefer the face value take. Letter to all. When there is no hype make hype. NYC was never like this and seeing this looks like a Hollywood movie.