Another anti-Semitic attack on a cemetery, this time in Pennsylvania:
HAPPENING NOW – People assessing damage at Mt. Carmel Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery in Wissonoming section of Phila.. 100s of graves toppled pic.twitter.com/2IajMwQxsL
— Joe Holden (@JoeHoldenCBS3) February 26, 2017
They’re reciting a peace chant:
Some gather around hundreds of damaged Jewish gravesites at Mt. Carmel Cemetery and recite a peace chant. pic.twitter.com/3hU8GV33w5
— Bobby Allyn (@BobbyAllyn) February 26, 2017
The media is really pushing that Trump is responsible for this stuff, and he came out and denounced it because they were criticizing him. Is it the rise of the alt-right that is inspiring this crap? I dunno, but it’s ugly.
A rabbi at Mt. Carmel Cemetery says he's counted more than 500 Jewish grave sites vandalized. Volunteers picking up knocked over headstones. pic.twitter.com/B3VWejd0YX
— Bobby Allyn (@BobbyAllyn) February 26, 2017
Rabbi tells me they've counted at least 350 toppled or damaged graves at Mt Carmel Cemetery @NBCPhiladelphia pic.twitter.com/VVoBuUPIgc
— Drew Smith (@drewsmithtv) February 26, 2017
More details from the Atlantic:
In another act of vandalism to the Jewish community, as many as 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia were toppled and broken over the weekend. Police are now investigating the incident at the Mount Carmel Cemetery in the city’s Wissinoming section. This comes one week after vandals toppled more than 170 headstones in a Jewish cemetery in a St. Louis suburb. Vice President Mike Pence visited the cemetery later in the week to help clean up the damage, following widespread criticism of the silence from the White House following a wave of threats to the Jewish community. “We condemn this vile act of vandalism and those who perpetrated it in the strongest possible terms,” he said. Pence was joined by 1,000 volunteers who showed up to help restore the Chesed Shel Emeth Society Cemetery in University City, Missouri. Dozens of Jewish community centers across the country have received bomb threats since the election of President Trump, who after several weeks of pressure from Jewish leaders and the media said “anti-Semitism is horrible.”
Effort underway to repair vandalized headstones in Jewish cemetary in Philadelphia @NBCPhiladelphia pic.twitter.com/992qsua58d
— Drew Smith (@drewsmithtv) February 26, 2017
Organizer launches GoFundMe page to raise money for repairs following vandalism at Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia: https://t.co/pl4XYw9rLq pic.twitter.com/XjyRl9IuiY
— NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) February 26, 2017
This shouldn’t happen in America.