Anti-Semitic graffiti found on Carmel (IN) synagogue

[DonViejo]

Source: Indianapolis Star


Justin L. Mack, Indianapolis Star Published 8:46 a.m. ET July 29, 2018 | Updated 9:21 a.m. ET July 29, 2018

Carmel police are investigating after anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered at a Hamilton County synagogue.

According to a statement from the Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council, the crime happened Saturday at Congregation Shaarey Tefilla in the 3000 block of West 116th Street.

Images of the graffiti shared online show a large Nazi flag and other symbols spray painted on the shed for the synagogue's garbage container.

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[oberliner]

1. Good lord

That took some effort. Sickening.

[ProudLib72]

5. And it took some time

Someone must have seen it happening.

[oberliner]

7. Hopefully that means they will be able to catch the perpetrators

[radical noodle]

2. Carmel is an upscale area

Let's stop pretending it's just stupid poor people who support this crap.

[mainer]

14. A very nice area, with a significant Jewish population

I wonder if their prosperity triggered resentment by those less affluent.

[radical noodle]

16. Lots of affluent non-Jewish folks too

If it was just affluence and economic inequality, they'd have picked on others too.

[oberliner]

18. Huh?

The median income in Carmel is over $100K and the vast majority of the population is not Jewish.

[Aristus]

3. I've been saying it for years:

Indiana is just Mississippi without the Spanish moss...

[Moostache]

6. Everything more than 5 miles south of I-94 sure is... (n/t)

[Glamrock]

10. I've called route 30 the Mason-Dixon line for going on 15 years.

[oberliner]

8. Incidents like this have occurred in Chicago, New York, LA

And all over the country (and world).

[appalachiablue]

12. Antisemitic graffiti, abuse and attacks on Jewish

people and neighborhoods unfortunately also happens in Europe, especially Paris and Lyon in France. The bigotry and hate that has existed for centuries worldwide is rising again in certain areas.

‘They Spit When I Walked in the Street’: The ‘New Anti-Semitism’ in France, New York Times, July 27, 2018.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016212088

[radical noodle]

17. The Klan was big in Indiana

for a long time. There are still pockets of KKK and white supremacist groups in Indiana.

[DavidDvorkin]

21. Nonsense. Indiana is socially complex, like other states.

[PSPS]

4. Hallmark of the 'trump era.'

[oberliner]

9. This sort of thing predates Trump

Unfortunately been going on for a very very long time.

[PSPS]

11. Of course, but not like this.

[keithbvadu2]

13. Trump "emboldened" the Nazis America fought a war against the Nazis and supposedly won. Yet here t

Trump "emboldened" the Nazis

America fought a war against the Nazis and supposedly won.

Yet here they are marching to "take back America".

" Michael Von Kotch, a Pennsylvania resident who called himself a Nazi, said the rally made him "proud to be white."

He said that he's long held white supremacist views and that Trump's election has "emboldened" him and the members of his own Nazi group. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fights-in-advance-of-saturday-protest-in-charlottesville/2017/08/12/155fb636-7f13-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?utm_term=.b54a0162fe07

[Racerdog1]

15. Pence country

Enough said

[oberliner]

19. This sort of thing happens all over the country

And the world.

[Solly Mack]

20. Someone had to see that happening. That took time.

Sickening.