{"id":266108,"date":"2026-04-25T17:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266108\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T17:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:59:18","slug":"congregation-beth-israel-increasing-security-after-antisemitic-graffiti-painted-on-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266108\/","title":{"rendered":"Congregation Beth Israel increasing security after antisemitic graffiti painted on wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Congregation Beth Israel says they are increasing security after finding antisemitic graffiti spray painted on a retaining wall outside the parking lot on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The synagogue says they have contacted APD about the incident, who are investigating and closely monitoring the campus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/texas-education-agency-confirms-investigation-into-austin-isd-pride-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Texas Education Agency confirms investigation into Austin ISD Pride Week<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The graffiti was close to the road, and not near out buildings,&#8221; Congregation Beth Israel said. &#8220;All operations are continuing as normal and we do not believe there&#8217;s any ongoing threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The synagogue central Austin has seen similar incidents in the past. In 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-fire-investigating-suspected-arson-at-synagogue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the building was set on fire<\/a> by a former member of the Texas State Guard, <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-synagogue-arson-suspect-pleads-guilty-to-hate-crime-congregation-beth-israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">who pleaded guilty to the crime in 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The graffiti incident also comes days after<a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/nation-world\/lexington-north-carolina-teen-angelina-han-hicks-allegedly-plotted-to-kill-as-many-jews-as-possible-at-houston-congregation-beth-israel-synagogue-fbi-charlotte-kash-patel-davidson-county-sheriffs-office-co-conspirators-antisemitism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> a North Carolina teenager was arrested for allegedly plotting to kill &#8220;as many Jews as possible&#8221; at a Houston synagogue.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Congregation Beth Israel says they are increasing security after finding antisemitic graffiti spray painted on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-266108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}