Police are searching for at least four individuals responsible for ‘terrifying signals of hatred and threats of violence’
Several synagogues and homes in the New York borough of Queens were vandalized overnight Monday with swastikas, according to the city council speaker.
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.
In a statement online, Menin said: “When 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.”
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.
