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Wednesday, June 05, 2013

It's only graffiti, right?

The half-finished former headquarters of the Anglo Irish Bank has been defaced with anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic graffiti.

Gardai and the Central Bank, which last year bought the eight-storey shell in the Dublin docklands, have launched separate probes into the vandalism, which happened early on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.

Several messages - including "Zionist engineered global financial holocaust", "Jewish supremacist destruction of indigenous Europeans", "Zionist global financial terrorism" and "Jewish financial terrorism" - have been scrawled in large red letters in the skeleton-like building.
From La Repubblica (Italian):
Two swastikas, a Star of David and the word "Juden" have been painted with black spray paint on the facade of the Synagogue of Verona. The anti-Semitic action the other night was done by some hooded people, videoed by surveillance cameras that have provided the police the first evidence to start an investigation. It's not the first time such events happened in Verona: over the years and in recent months swastikas had been painted on Jewish cemetery, but never on the facade of the synagogue in the city center.

The incident happened to coincide with an important Jewish religious ceremony, the 150th anniversary of the [dedication of?] Sefer Torah, a scroll that contains the sacred writings of the Jews.