Posted on 08/17/22
| News Source: Times of Israel
The word “Hitler” was painted onto the wall of a synagogue in New York City on Wednesday.
🚨 HITLER 🚨 Is the message Holocaust Survivors who saw and experienced the atrocities of WWII have have to see at Congregation Bet Shalom this morning when they go to pray. Happening right here in our own backyards. America in 2022. pic.twitter.com/kL8sDIhlTp
— Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (@InnaVernikov) August 17, 2022
Rabbi Asher Altschul found the graffiti on Congregation Beth Shalom of Kingsbay in Brooklyn early in the morning, said local New York City councilwoman Inna Vernikov.
“There are Holocaust survivors who attend this shul and after the atrocities they have seen during World War II, they now have to come to a synagogue in the United States of America in 2022 and see a Hitler sign on the wall,” Vernikov said.
Images from the scene showed the Nazi dictator’s name scrawled on a brick wall in white paint.
The Anti-Defamation League said it was “absolutely appalled” by the antisemitic graffiti, and that the NYPD’s hate crimes unit was investigating the incident.