{"id":425406,"date":"2026-05-04T21:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/425406\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T21:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:20:09","slug":"several-new-york-city-synagogues-and-homes-vandalized-with-swastikas-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/425406\/","title":{"rendered":"Several New York City synagogues and homes vandalized with swastikas | New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several synagogues and homes in the New York<\/a> borough of Queens were vandalized overnight on Monday with swastikas, according to the city council speaker.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Julie Menin, along with other city council members including Lynn Schulman and Phil Wong, visited Congregation Machane Chodosh, one of the sites targeted in Forest Hills.<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a> online, Menin said: \u201cWhen rabbis and congregants arrived to pray this morning, they expected to be met with their usual loving community. When a family woke up, they were prepared to begin an otherwise normal week. Instead, they were met with terrifying signals of hatred and threats of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photos shared online showed black swastikas spray-painted on synagogue walls, a garage door with the symbol circled in red, and what appeared to be the window of a nearby residence.<\/p>\n

Other sites targeted include the Rego Park Jewish Center, which was spray-painted with swastikas alongside the word \u201cHitler\u201d in red paint.<\/p>\n

Antisemitic graffiti is spray-painted on the Rego Park Jewish Center in Queens, New York, on Monday. Photograph: Julius Constantine Motal\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

Menin said she and the other council members visited multiple vandalized locations and are in contact with police, who are investigating and searching for at least four individuals. She added that the graffiti would be removed once the investigation is complete.<\/p>\n

Yossi Mendelson, Congregation Machane Chodosh\u2019s rabbi, predicted the latest incident would further unite the community, rather than instill fear. \u201cThey\u2019ll carry on spray-painting, and we\u2019ll live on,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it\u2019ll have the opposite effect. The community feels called to action by this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Guardian has contacted New York<\/a> police for comment.<\/p>\n

Zohran Mamdani<\/a> said he was \u201chorrified and angered\u201d by the incident. \u201cThis is not just vandalism \u2013 it is a deliberate act of antisemitic hatred meant to instill fear,\u201d the New York City mayor said in a statement.\u2028\u201cThere is no place for antisemitism in Queens or anywhere in our city.<\/p>\n

Rabbi Yossi Mendelson speaks with the police outside Congregation Machane Chodosh on Monday. Photograph: Julius Constantine Motal\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

\u201cI stand in solidarity with our Jewish neighbors. Their safety, dignity and belonging are non-negotiable.\u201d<\/p>\n

In January, two teenagers were arrested<\/a> and charged with hate crimes after dozens of swastikas were found painted on a playground in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

After that incident, Mamdani condemned the vandalism, saying<\/a> he was \u201csickened by this antisemitic vandalism\u201d, adding: \u201cAntisemitism has no place in our city, and I stand shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish New Yorkers who were targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several synagogues and homes in the New York borough of Queens were vandalized overnight on Monday with swastikas,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-425406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}