By COLlive staff
A swastika and graffiti calling for the killing of Jews were found scrawled in a stairwell of the elite Brooklyn Technical High School, according to the NYPD — the latest reported anti-Semitic crime in a city that has seen an uptick of such incidents.
NYPD spokesman Det. Brian Magoolaghan said a 43-year-old school employee found the graffiti, written in black marker, on Thursday at 5:12 p.m. in a third-floor stairwell, The NY Newsday reported.
There has not been an arrest in the case, which is being investigated as criminal mischief by the NYPD’s hate crimes task force and the 88th Precinct.
Brooklyn Tech is a prestigious high school located in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood. It has a focus on math, science, technology and computers.
New York City is experiencing an “anti-Semitic crisis,” Mayor Bill de Blasio told a Jewish congregation last week.
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea has said there was a 22% increase in anti-Semitic crimes reported last year, most not physical violence but vandalism such as swastika graffiti.
Attacks against Jews in recent weeks include a stabbing attack at a Chanukah party in Monsey, a shooting at a Kosher grocery store in Jersey City, and numerous hate-filled unprovoked incidents of verbal and physical attacks against visibly Jewish individuals in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights, Borough Park and Williamsburg neighborhoods.
All students are bright in math, science and reading. They all are future students of NYU, Cornell, Brook etc – hate need to be stopped by our public education system. It’s not just against Orthodox Jews it’s against all Jewish people and against Jewish kids as well.
They have cameras and they have to find who did it.
If deBlasio and his henchmen really want to stop what they have instigated namely, anti-Semitism then they should shut down this school until the perpetrator is found and dealt with properly. Fancy words are Meaningless to both The Jewish people as well as the perpetrators