Swastikas painted on Northern Virginia Jewish community center

[inanna]

Source: Washington Post

By Joe Heim
October 6 at 2:13 PM

For the second time in 18 months, a Jewish community center in Fairfax County has been vandalized with spray painted swastikas on its exterior walls. The swastikas were discovered early Saturday, said David Yaffe, president of the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia’s board of directors.

Yaffe said that 19 swastikas were painted on the walls near the entrance to the center, which sits in the 8900 block of Little River Turnpike in Annandale.

“We were shocked the first time that this happened. So, we’re not shocked that it has happened again, but we are profoundly disappointed,” Yaffe said. “We know this does not reflect the feelings of the local community or of the Northern Virginia community, but it is sad that this is taking place in 2018.”

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The Anti-Defamation League reported earlier this year that there were 1,986 anti-Semitic incidents in 2017 — nearly 60 percent higher than 2016. Incidents ranged from physical assault, bomb threats and cemetery desecrations to vandalism and harassment.



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[John Fante]

1. Trump's finest.

[Grins]

10. "Good people".

"Good people". You know - on both sides....

[John Fante]

11. Trump may have said "both sides", but he always implied that

the counter-protesters were more at fault:

You had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit, and they were very, very violent. . . . You had a lot of people in that [white nationalist] group that were there to innocently protest and very legally protest, because you know — I don’t know if you know — they had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit.”

This was (of course) a lie by Trump - the counter-protesters did have a permit. He actually tried to smear them to prop up his Nazi followers. The man is a plague.

[ancianita]

2. Time for Nazi whack-a-mole

[Ilsa]

3. Another activity of trump's Maga America

After that, they probably went to a bar, felt up a few women patrons, called them bitches and "lesbos" for not wanting to have sex in the dirty men's room, went outside to fight some guys they decided must be gay, robbed and beat up a refugee walking down the street.

The next morning they probably went to church and sang, "Oh, how I love Jesus."

[Freestate_MD]

4. I remember the hate at this center; I lived

in Annandale, VA at the time. It's sad and it sickens me.

[CTyankee]

14. So did I. I lived on Mary Lee Lane.

[Solly Mack]

5. People suck.

Yeah, yeah. I know it's not all people and I also know saying the assholes who did this suck is an understatement.

If I had a wand, and was a graduate of Hogwarts, and if that kind of stuff was actually real, I'd transform the haters into actual rocks - since that's what they like to throw at people. (figuratively)

Then I'd use those rocks as gravel so people could run them over every day.

That way they could be both useful and practical.

Instead of the waste they are now.

[Mystery sage]

6. I like the way you think

[Gothmog]

7. Trump's base is composed degenerates and deplorables

These idiots are emboldened by trump.

[oberliner]

8. This is depressing

[raccoon]

9. Thanks, Dotard, for making this possible. Nt

[Roadside Attraction]

12. Does anyone know . . .

Where Republican Senatorial candidate Corey Stewart was at the time? Anyone vouch for him?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. Jr. and Eric were bored.

[clementine613]

15. Rethugs Strike Again

n/t

[Behind the Aegis]

16. Virginia police release surveillance video from Jewish center vandalized with swastikas

Police in Northern Virginia on Tuesday released surveillance video from a Jewish community center that was vandalized with swastikas earlier this week.

"Do you recognize this suspect?" the Fairfax County Police Department asked in a post accompanying the video that encourages the public to reach out with any possible leads on the vandal's identity.

The video shows a person wearing dark clothes and a gray cloth mask wandering around the side of the Jewish Community Center (JCC) of Northern Virginia, then spray-painting the outside of the building.

The facility, which is located in Annandale, Va., was vandalized with 19 swastikas overnight, a representative of the center told The Hill on Saturday.

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine (D) on Saturday denounced the "insidious rise in hateful actions and anti-Semitism" in Virginia and "across the country."

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