Vandals slashed the tires and left an antisemitic note on a Jewish woman’s car in New York City last week, PIX11 reports.
The woman is from New Jersey and was visiting her brother in Harlem last week when the incident occurred, the report says.
The note said, “Zionist rats aren’t welcome anywhere but Antarctica or hell.”
The woman says that, before finding the vandalism, a passerby shouted “Free Palestine” at her and her brother.
It wasn’t clear how the pair or the car were identified as Jewish.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating, the report says.
Last week, vandals scratched a swastika into a car on the Upper East Side.
Jews are targeted in hate crimes in the city far more than any other group.
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