A red swastika spray-painted at a Pawtucket synagogue was widely condemned by local and state leaders Sunday, as Pawtucket Police opened an investigation into the vandalism.
“This is the kind of thing that makes your whole body roil inside if you’re a Jew,” said David Pliskin, the president of Congregation Ohawe Sholam. It’s the only Jewish house of worship in Pawtucket.
The vandalism was immediately condemned by many, as the Mayors of Providence and Pawtucket called for a joint news conference Monday morning to address the issue of anti-Semitism in the area.
This is one of several recent incidents of anti-Semitism in the area. Several blocks from the Pawtucket synagogue on Providence’s East Side, flyers were distributed in October that contained racist and anti-Semitic remarks, along with bags of a substance that turned out to be rice.
The flyers referred to solving “Jewish pollution.”
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