Brooklyn, NY – Police have made an arrest after disturbing messages of hate were found inside a Brooklyn synagogue Thursday evening, the latest in a string of anti-Semitic incidents across the nation.
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James Polite, 26, is charged with four counts of criminal mischief as a hate crime and making graffiti.
Police said Saturday that Polite, had also recently set a string of fires — including in the closet of Yeshiva Beth Hillel of Williamsburg, and smaller blazes in the trash outside three other nearby Jewish institutions.
Graffiti inside the Union Temple on Eastern Parkway in Prospect Heights read “Kill all Jews” and “Hitler,” along with some other horribly offensive language.
Former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn confirmed Saturday that Polite was her intern.
“I know this young man, and along with many others in the New York City Council and social services agencies throughout the city, have done everything I could over the years to help him” as he cycled in and out of homelessness and the foster care and mental health systems, she said in a statement posted to Twitter. “I am simply and utterly devastated.”
Quinn called the defacement — which rattled worshipers just five days after 11 people were shot dead in an attack at a synagogue in Pittsburgh — “a vile expression of bigotry and anti-Semitism” and “indefensible.”
A “Get out the Vote” event at Union Temple hosted by Broad City actress Ilana Glazer was canceled as a result of the hateful graffiti.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio attended Shabbat services at the temple Friday night as a show of solidarity.
After the service, he told journalists the incident was a horrible act of hate and “deeply disturbing to all New Yorkers.”
“But it is particularly painful for members of the Jewish community who feel very vulnerable right now, who feel under attack,” de Blasio said.
Polite was taken after his arrest to a hospital for evaluation, Lt. Paul Ng said. The suspect has not appeared in court.
Surveillance Below shows the suspect setting blazes near a shul in Williamsburg.
If evil obumer has a son. He would look and act like this dreck.
Looks like a white supremacist to me…
Burn him at the steak
Never mind to #2 . He looks like a fine gentelman ,looks fit in 10 years from now to run for president of United States of America. He has all qualifications to run as a democratic candidate.
And all the left, liberal yidden will support all those schvartzes!
There are reports that this fine young man is being considered a suspect in multiple arson attempts at yeshivas and other Jewish institutions.
“” As he cycled in and out of homelessness and the foster care and mental health systems,” ….As usual ,always the same excuse ,for acting like an animal !!!
No way for the leftist scum to blame this on Trump
CNN aka the fake news failed to mentioned that he worked for the Obama campaign and for Quinn’s and was raised by a Jewish family.
it is coming out that Quinn and others helped bend rules in many ways to help this pothead. it is time to drain the swamp and ask for a reckoning of special funds made available to him.
My daughter, in a masters program, can’t get a decent summer or part time job. At the same time I read things like this and about a NYC program that hires and pays convicted gang members to coach kids to avoid gangs.
A crime free person can NOT apply, these well paying jobs are only given to criminals or those with a criminal background.
To 9, 10, 10?, 11, & 12; you are either an idiot, or a moron (there is a difference). Anyone delusional enough to think that the Democrats are better for Yidden than Trump has got to have as negative IQ.
Under your great messiah the obamanation Jews were attacked and harassed by Democrat leftist anti Israel scum for some reason you morons support the most anti Israel president in recent history who never lost an opportunity to side with Israel’s enemies be it Iran or the palestinians democrats scum are anti religious freedom they and their non drum Jewish supporters support Israel’s enemies and are anti drum supporting the forcing of the religious to support gay marriage and abortion on demand only Democrat scum attacked Trump for recognizing Jerusalem as the capital and moving the embassy there including Jews the democrats are the ones who support the anti Israel activists the anti Israel bds crowd the anti Israel BLM crowd the anti Israel Antifa terrorists democrats hate religion but you morons worship the democrats no matter how anti Israel they are or how anti religious they are it was democrats who are all for forcing drum Jews and other religious people to support gay marriage including baking cakes for their weddings photographing their weddings catering their wedding etc its leftists who are anti milah and anti shechita
It’s only democrats who are all for the Iran deal giving Iran billions of dollars to fund the murder of Jews in Israel and to build up its military to attack israel and an eventual path to nuclear weapons
To the moron who goes on about all our voted going to the obamanation well all the Left is Democrat morons like you all your votes went to Trump as he one and is president and your candidate the machashefa hag joins a long line of loser democrats
According to the leftist NYT out of 142 bias crimes against Jews this year which is 4 times those against blacks not a single one was by a right winger