30 homes defaced w/swastikas, anti-Jewish rhetoric:
Got relatives in liberal Madison WI?
Residents of 30 homes on the far west side of Madison, Wisconsin’s state capital, woke up Saturday morning to find their property vandalized with spray-pained swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans, as well as obscene drawings, derogatory remarks about women and drawings of Confederate flags with the letters KKK beside them. Garage doors, driveways, and vehicles were all targeted by the vandals. The damage was estimated by Madison police as in excess of “tens of thousands of dollars,” which raises the crime to the level of felonious activity.
As reported by Madison’s ABC affiliate, WKOW-TV, none of the victims or their neighbors observed any suspects on Friday night, when the vandalism must have occurred. Officer David Dexheimer of the Madison Police Department said, “While some of the things that were written or painted are troubling, we don’t know that that was specifically targeted to a particular victim,” and that therefore the police are unsure whether this constitutes a “hate crime.”
The neighbors felt a little more certain of the nature of the graffiti than the police. Jim Stein, an 18-year resident of the area, said that he awoke Saturday morning to see “F**k Jews” spray-painted on a garage door across the street; later, when his neighbor had cleared the snow from his driveway, a swastika was found to have been spray-painted on the pavement.
Stein, who is the president of the local Jewish Federation, told WISC-TV, Madison’s CBS affiliate, “Everybody in the neighborhood is pretty upset. It was of course extremely disturbing to me. This is anti-Semitic to the extent that people feel comfortable equating Jewish people or the Jewish religion with scatological or vulgar language or the sexual parts of people’s bodies.”
“To me this reeks of anti-Semitism,” Stein, who found that his car had also been vandalized during the night, told the television station, “and that is an important wake-up call for the city of Madison.”
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