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Wed Nov 16, 2022, 05:55 AM Nov 2022

(Jewish Group) Headstones Vandalized With Swastikas In Illinois Jewish Cemetery

Swastikas were found spray-painted on tombstones in a Chicago-area Jewish cemetery on Monday, the same day that similar symbols of hate — including the message “No Mercy For Jews” — were found scrawled along walls in Maryland.

Thirty-nine tombstones were defaced with red spray paint in the Congregation Am Echod Jewish Cemetery in Waukegan, roughly 26 miles north of Chicago, the Waukegan Police Department said.

Of those tombstones, 16 were defiled with large red spray-painted swastikas while the others had non-specific markings, police said in a statement.

“My immediate thought is with my parents and how angry they would be,” Larry Yellen, whose parents are buried in the cemetery, told FOX 32 Chicago. “My father lost at least four aunts in the Holocaust, his family was from Poland. They know more than anyone what a swastika means.”

One headstone appeared to read “Kanye was rite,” according to the local station, an apparent reference to antisemitic remarks made last month by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.

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(Jewish Group) Headstones Vandalized With Swastikas In Illinois Jewish Cemetery (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Nov 2022 OP
It's things like this that make me feel soooo ashamed to be an American...... secondwind Nov 2022 #1
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