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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 532

grave desecration

David Gerbi speaks about Libya in Johannesburg, South Africa, on March 15, 2011. (The Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images/via JTA)
October 14, 2021, 10:59 pm
Libya’s Jewish graveyards were destroyed. They are being rebuilt online
David Gerbi left with the rest of his native country’s Jews many years ago. Horrified to see the community cemeteries desecrated on a return visit, he’s created a virtual memorial
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: The grave of a daughter of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav after it was torched in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, in 2015. (Oholei Tzadikim via JTA)
August 11, 2021, 9:38 am
Ukraine grave of Rabbi Nachman’s daughter destroyed, desecrated with pig heads
Perpetrators shatter above-ground parts of gravesite; Jewish sites also vandalized this week in Moldova, Greece
By Cnaan Liphshiz
An illustrative photo of a Jewish grave (Robert Alexander/Getty Images via JTA)
November 8, 2019, 11:50 am
Dead chickens found in a dug up Jewish grave in Connecticut
Police investigating incident in Hartford, checking whether human remains removed
By JTA
Cooking gear found under the gravestone of a nine-month old in Rosh Ha'ayin, October 7, 2019. (Facebook)
October 15, 2019, 4:00 pm
Frying in a grave: Family horrified to find cooking gear under baby’s gravestone
‘If this isn’t desecrating the dead, what is?’ writes sister of Nir Tam after pan, bits of onion, water heater found stored in Rosh Ha’ayin grave
By Michael Bachner
The vandalized grave of US photographer and artist Man Ray and his wife, US dancer and model Juliet Man Ray at the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris on March 27, 2019. (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP)
March 27, 2019, 8:45 pm
Paris tomb of US artist Man Ray and wife found desecrated
Gravestone of ‘first Jewish avant-garde artist’ knocked over in Montparnasse cemetery, portrait smashed
By AFP
Entrance to Hebrew Cemetery on McMahon Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. (Google Screenshot)
March 19, 2019, 4:52 pm
Jewish gravestones vandalized with swastikas in Massachusetts
Cemetery in Fall River also defaced with anti-Semitic slogans including ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘Oy vey, this is MAGA Country’
By JTA
Illustrative: The aftermath of desecration in March 2019 of the mass grave of Holocaust victims near Raflivka, Ukraine. (Courtesy of Eduard Dolinsky via JTA)
March 8, 2019, 4:45 pm
Mass grave for Holocaust victims in Ukraine desecrated for 2nd time this year
Killing pit at Raflivka reportedly dug up by gravediggers looking for gold amid the remains of 2,500 Jews murdered there
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Headstones at the vandalized Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, Mo., Feb. 22, 2017. (Michael Thomas/ Getty Images)
March 2, 2017, 5:02 am
Muslim veterans offer to guard Jewish sites across US
Amid uptick in anti-Semitic incidents including bomb threats, grave desecration, Muslim tweets signal readiness to help
By Gabe Friedman
President Donald Trump gestures after speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP/Alex Brandon)
February 28, 2017, 5:53 am
Trump considering nixing anti-Semitism envoy as part of budget plan — report
Amid proposed $54 billion surge in military spending, president may do away with Congress-mandated position, and others, to accommodate increase
By JTA and ToI Staff
A man looks at fallen tombstones at the Jewish Mount Carmel Cemetery, February 26, 2017, in Philadelphia, PA. (AFP/Dominick Reuter)
February 28, 2017, 12:52 am
With few safeguards, Jewish cemeteries make easy targets for vandals
Two attacks, a week apart, on big, sparsely staffed and easy to access graveyards — combined with JCC bomb threats — have Jewish leaders increasingly concerned
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: A monument at a Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland is found desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti, March 2012 (Jedrzej Wojnar/AP)
February 29, 2016, 2:36 am
2 months later, anti-Semitic graffiti remains at Polish Jewish cemetery
Jewish tourists ‘horrified’ by hateful slogans; local news report says authorities waiting for warmer weather to paint over slurs
By ToI Staff
A 'stumbling block' in Heidelberg, Germany. Illustrative photo (CC-BY SA The Profitcy/Wikipedia)
February 5, 2016, 10:33 pm
Jewish cemeteries, Holocaust memorials vandalized across Germany
In recent weeks, memorial sites have been defaced in Berlin, Kropelin and Hanover
By JTA
Illustrative: A monument at a Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland is found desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti, March 2012 (Jedrzej Wojnar/AP)
December 17, 2015, 7:35 pm
Anti-Semitic, pro-ISIS graffiti painted at Polish Jewish cemetery
‘Allah bless Hitler’ and ‘Islamic State was here’ among slogans daubed on tombstones in Sochaczew, central Poland
By JTA
A view of tombstones vandalized in the Mount of Olives cemetery on June 23, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 2, 2015, 11:44 am
Mount of Olive graves smashed, trees set on fire
Police searching for desecrators of 3,000-year-old Jewish burial site
August 8, 2015, 6:31 am
Ukraine Jewish headstones, Hungary Holocaust monument smashed
Cemetery in Uzhgorod and memorial in Nyiregyhaza vandalized in separate incidents
By JTA
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