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St Stephen Chruch — Vandalism in Saint Stephen Church near Jerusalem. (photo: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)

For the third time in four years, the Beit Jimal Monastery has been vandalized in a “price tag” attack.

By Daniel Eisenbud / The Jerusalem Post / Sep 23, 2017

Ed. note: “Price tag” attacks are acts of vandalism by Jewish fundamentalist settler youths aimed Palestinians, Christians, left-wing Israeli Jews, Israeli security forces, and others seen as opposing the settlement enterprise.

According to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, vandals on Wednesday night shattered stained-glass windows depicting passages from Jesus; destroyed a statue of the Virgin Mary; and damaged furniture.

Bishop Boulos Marcuzzo, patriarchal vicar in Jerusalem, called for tolerance after deeming the ransacking “not only an act of vandalism, but an action against the sacredness of the holy places and the faith of people.”

“The Holy Land is deep [in] faith and culture,” Marcuzzo said in a Friday statement. “We must live together with the diversity of beliefs. It is absolutely necessary to accept others, to accept each other in our diversity.”

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340ace20-05d5-11e7-8773-c90009b761d0-1560x1101 — Anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying graffiti was spray-painted on the facade of Temple De Hirsch Sinai on Capitol Hill. The temple has chosen to leave it in place for the moment. (photo: Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

The Seattle synagogue Temple De Hirsch Sinai was vandalized with graffiti saying “The Holocaust is fake history.”

By Evan Bush / The Seattle Times
March 10, 2017

“[Since the election, people] previously marginalized or silenced now feel newly empowered. The majority of us need to push back against that and convey that America is still America . . . there is no place for hate or tolerance of toxic expression.”
— Rabbi Daniel Weiner, Temple De Hirsch Sinai

A synagogue in the Capitol Hill neighborhood was vandalized overnight Thursday with anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying graffiti, said Rabbi Daniel Weiner of Temple De Hirsch Sinai.

A Seattle police officer discovered the spray-painted message Friday morning on the old sanctuary’s facade.

“It says, ‘The Holocaust is fake history,’ ” Weiner said. The “s” characters in the graffiti are dollar signs, Weiner said.

“It really is a toxic mix of Holocaust denial, the stereotypical charge that Jews are obsessed with money, and the notion coming from the (President Trump) administration that all facts are fungible . . . fake facts, fake history,” Weiner said.

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