Anonymous wrote:Given the timing, location and the fact they got the swastika wrong, I'm going to go with someone who got ripped off by FTX.

What is FTX?

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Anonymous wrote:Can we please stop speculating about the vandal? While his motivation is important to this particular case, it's the big picture that really matters here: antisemitic incidents are on the rise and Jews do not feel safe in our own country. What are we (collectively, not just the Jews) doing about that?

What if the person who did this was 12 years old? Wouldn't that make people feel a lot differently about this?

What if the person was 25 years old?

Given the timing, location and the fact they got the swastika wrong, I'm going to go with someone who got ripped off by FTX.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we please stop speculating about the vandal? While his motivation is important to this particular case, it's the big picture that really matters here: antisemitic incidents are on the rise and Jews do not feel safe in our own country. What are we (collectively, not just the Jews) doing about that?

I’m a Jew and feel very safe in this country. Please don’t speak for all of us.

Ok, let me clarify. Not this PP. Some Jews. Most Jews? All the Jews that I know.

Most Jews I know, including me and my family, feel safe in this country. Do we feel less safe than we did a few years ago? Sure. But I only know of one or two people who are actively looking for anything like an escape route.

I ride on the Capital Crescent Trail frequently, but I don't think whoever scrawled this garbage there wants to do anything other than feel tough and laugh in private about how scared they're making us.

I'm Jewish and I feel safe in the DMV and NY (where I am from) -- but the rest of America? Not the PNW. Not the South. Not the Southwest. Not the rural midwest.

Not in Georgia? Full of Jews, a lot of them students. Not in Florida? Not in South Carolina? I've been many times and have had no issues. Not in Arizona? Enough Jews in the retirement areas to fill at least two temples in my parents' retirement area alone. I have family in SD, in Albuquerque, in TN, in Louisiana, in Washington state, in Oregon. I have a large family so I'm sure I missed some. Remarkably they have had no issues either.

Anonymous wrote:Can we please stop speculating about the vandal? While his motivation is important to this particular case, it's the big picture that really matters here: antisemitic incidents are on the rise and Jews do not feel safe in our own country. What are we (collectively, not just the Jews) doing about that?

What if the person who did this was 12 years old? Wouldn't that make people feel a lot differently about this?

Anonymous wrote:Can we please stop speculating about the vandal? While his motivation is important to this particular case, it's the big picture that really matters here: antisemitic incidents are on the rise and Jews do not feel safe in our own country. What are we (collectively, not just the Jews) doing about that?

Seems rather relevant if the motivation was to get people talking about the big picture. Where were you when this swastika was being painted?

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Anonymous wrote:Someone spray painted a swastika and “no mercy for Jews” with images of people being hanged in the north bethesda area

Pls don’t call it the Swastika ( which is a holy symbol of Hindus, Jains and Buddhists worldwide). The Nazi symbol is the Hakenkreuz which is counterclockwise and tilted.

Good luck with that. I read that this hakenkreuz was based on Hindu notions of white supremacy and that the swastika is based on the design of a military fort.

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Anonymous wrote:It is only going to get worse
With Republicans taking the house they will everything they can to add to the violent rhetoric. It is going to be ugly to say the least.

If you are a Jew in a red state start planning to move.

I am not wrong. Jew here. My family did not make it NEVER FORGET.

This alleged incident happened in one of the bluest of blue places in America.

This incident is not alleged. It happened. There are pictures.

It happened. But I would say there are decent chances it was done by someone wanting to complain about hate crimes-'raise awareness', as happens many times on college campuses where the victim ends up being the perpetrator.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we please stop speculating about the vandal? While his motivation is important to this particular case, it's the big picture that really matters here: antisemitic incidents are on the rise and Jews do not feel safe in our own country. What are we (collectively, not just the Jews) doing about that?

I’m a Jew and feel very safe in this country. Please don’t speak for all of us.

Ok, let me clarify. Not this PP. Some Jews. Most Jews? All the Jews that I know.

Most Jews I know, including me and my family, feel safe in this country. Do we feel less safe than we did a few years ago? Sure. But I only know of one or two people who are actively looking for anything like an escape route.

I ride on the Capital Crescent Trail frequently, but I don't think whoever scrawled this garbage there wants to do anything other than feel tough and laugh in private about how scared they're making us.

I'm Jewish and I feel safe in the DMV and NY (where I am from) -- but the rest of America? Not the PNW. Not the South. Not the Southwest. Not the rural midwest.

There's definitely been an uptick in incidents like this vandalism and also of synagogues. What about actual assaults on people for their religion? We had the awful shooting in Pittsburgh.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we please stop speculating about the vandal? While his motivation is important to this particular case, it's the big picture that really matters here: antisemitic incidents are on the rise and Jews do not feel safe in our own country. What are we (collectively, not just the Jews) doing about that?

I’m a Jew and feel very safe in this country. Please don’t speak for all of us.

Ok, let me clarify. Not this PP. Some Jews. Most Jews? All the Jews that I know.

Most Jews I know, including me and my family, feel safe in this country. Do we feel less safe than we did a few years ago? Sure. But I only know of one or two people who are actively looking for anything like an escape route.

I ride on the Capital Crescent Trail frequently, but I don't think whoever scrawled this garbage there wants to do anything other than feel tough and laugh in private about how scared they're making us.

I'm Jewish and I feel safe in the DMV and NY (where I am from) -- but the rest of America? Not the PNW. Not the South. Not the Southwest. Not the rural midwest.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we please stop speculating about the vandal? While his motivation is important to this particular case, it's the big picture that really matters here: antisemitic incidents are on the rise and Jews do not feel safe in our own country. What are we (collectively, not just the Jews) doing about that?

I’m a Jew and feel very safe in this country. Please don’t speak for all of us.

Ok, let me clarify. Not this PP. Some Jews. Most Jews? All the Jews that I know.

Most Jews I know, including me and my family, feel safe in this country. Do we feel less safe than we did a few years ago? Sure. But I only know of one or two people who are actively looking for anything like an escape route.

I ride on the Capital Crescent Trail frequently, but I don't think whoever scrawled this garbage there wants to do anything other than feel tough and laugh in private about how scared they're making us.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we please stop speculating about the vandal? While his motivation is important to this particular case, it's the big picture that really matters here: antisemitic incidents are on the rise and Jews do not feel safe in our own country. What are we (collectively, not just the Jews) doing about that?

I’m a Jew and feel very safe in this country. Please don’t speak for all of us.

Ok, let me clarify. Not this PP. Some Jews. Most Jews? All the Jews that I know.

I’m sorry they are being fed that message.

I am also sorry. If these messages of Jew hatred would stop and the dismissal of Jews feeling threatened would stop, maybe they wouldn't be frightened.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we please stop speculating about the vandal? While his motivation is important to this particular case, it's the big picture that really matters here: antisemitic incidents are on the rise and Jews do not feel safe in our own country. What are we (collectively, not just the Jews) doing about that?

I’m a Jew and feel very safe in this country. Please don’t speak for all of us.

Ok, let me clarify. Not this PP. Some Jews. Most Jews? All the Jews that I know.

I’m sorry they are being fed that message.

I highly recommend this book: Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel.

The title is tongue in cheek. It's about modern day antisemitism.

Why not arrest the vandal and move on? Why do Moco residents always insist on publishing every swastika drawn on a desk or moronic graffiti sprayed on a park?