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Nineteen swastikas daubed on walls of Jewish community centre in US
Nazi symbols painted onto building Northern Virginia JCC, as police search for the culprit who was caught on CCTV in the early hours of the morning
Some 19 swastikas were spray painted on the walls of a Jewish Community Centre in Virginia.
The vandalism was discovered on Saturday morning at the Jewish Community Centre of Northern Virginia, in Fairfax, Va. Surveillance video shows a man wearing dark clothes spraying the building at about 4:30 a.m., Fairfax police told the Washington Post.
“As many of us recognise, these acts do not represent the community around the J or the community in Northern Virginia,” Fairfax JCC Executive Director Jeff Dannick and JCC Board President David Yaffe, said in a statement.
“The J as a whole, and particularly through the focused efforts of our Committee for a Just and Caring Community, will continue to participate as a positive force in both the Jewish and wider communities,” they also said.
It is the second suspected hate crime against the Fairfax JCC in the last 18 months. In April 2017 “Hitler was right,” swastikas and the SS symbol were found spray-painted on the exterior of the JCC building. A nearby church also was vandalised. Dylan M. Mahone, 20, was arrested and charged with hate-related offenses in the incident.
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, said in a tweet showing a photo of the vandalised JCC that “An insidious rise in hateful actions and anti-Semitism is happening in Virginia and across the country. We must meet it with fierce condemnation and an over-abundance of love and unity. We cannot allow hate to fester.”
This is the Fairfax Jewish Community Center this morning.
An insidious rise in hateful actions and anti-Semitism is happening in Virginia and across the country. We must meet it with fierce condemnation and an over-abundance of love and unity. We cannot allow hate to fester. pic.twitter.com/85bW2Hl0th
— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) October 6, 2018
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