A Philadelphia Holocaust memorial was reportedly vandalized with a swastika in the most recent antisemitic attack in the United States.
CBS NewsSunday evening The Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza released a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, that it had been vandalized. CBS reported a spokesperson for the memorial referenced a spike in antisemitism since the war in Gaza broke out.
“A disgusting incident of antisemitism that comes just after the Anti-Defamation League recorded a dramatic increase in antisemitism (both nationally and in Philly) from October to December of last year,” the spokesperson said.
In December, the Anti-Defamation League reported it recorded an “unprecedented” rise in antisemitic “incidents” in the United States over a two-month period since the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel by Hamas.
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The ADL said it began tracking antisemitic incidents in 1979, and it said the 2,031 antisemitic incidents in the two-month period following the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel was the most in a two-month span the organization had ever recorded.
According to the Associated Press, thousands have died in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the terror organization that controls Gaza. The Associated Press reported that the initial attack in Israel, carried out by Hamas terrorists, resulted in more than 1,200 deaths. The outlet also reported that since the ensuing war broke out, over 20,000 people have died in Gaza.
