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NYC: Event Canceled After Anti-Semitic Tags Found on Walls of Synagogue

HeadlineNov 02, 2018

And in New York, a political event hosted by Ilana Glazer of Comedy Central’s “Broad City” at the Union Temple Synagogue in Brooklyn was canceled Thursday after anti-Semitic messages were found scrawled on walls throughout the building. Among the messages were “Jew Better Be Ready,” “Insert Oven Here,” “End is now,” “Hitler” and “Free Smoke for Nigger Jews.” The graffiti comes amid a surge in anti-Semitic hate crimes nationwide, including Saturday’s massacre of 11 Jewish worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman was scheduled to speak at the event about coverage of the midterm elections. On Thursday night, Glazer announced the cancellation to hundreds of people.

Ilana Glazer: “Hey, y’all. Thank you for coming tonight. We have a situation that’s not presenting any immediate danger, but there were hateful, anti-Semitic [bleep] scrawled all over the space today, very recently, within the past couple hours. So we don’t feel safe. … This wasn’t the event, you know what I mean? But we are experiencing this together, and this is something for us to think about, gather around, organize and activate. And we’ll follow up with this story and who I was hoping to show you guys—these local candidates who are running tight races, who need your help canvassing this weekend.”

The Union Temple Synagogue in Brooklyn hosts outside events frequently, including an upcoming event commemorating the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, November 10, 1938, when the glass of Jewish stores was smashed throughout Germany. Ilana Glazer will join us later in the broadcast.

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