‘F*ck’ Jews’ sprayed outside Israeli restaurant in NYC’s Upper West Side

New York Jewish Week through JTA — A not too long ago opened Israeli restaurant on the Higher West Aspect has been vandalized with vulgar, antisemitic graffiti.

On Thursday morning, staffers arrived at Miriam, an Israeli eatery on Amsterdam Ave. and 74th St. that opened on Jan. 24, to search out the phrases “Fuck Jews” spray-painted 3 times on its outside eating shed.

In line with Patch, the NYPD arrived on the scene round 12:20 p.m. and commenced the method to take away the hateful scrawl. An officer mentioned they have been investigating the incident as a hate crime, however didn’t present extra particulars, the information website reported.

Native politicians, in the meantime, took to Twitter to sentence the incident.

“My constituents woke as much as hateful & disgusting antisemitic graffiti exterior the Higher West Aspect’s new restaurant Miriam on West 74th Road and Amsterdam,” New York State Meeting member Linda Rosenthal, who represents the Higher West Aspect, wrote. “I encourage our neighbors to help Miriam.”

Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, who shared {a photograph} of the vandalism on his Twitter account, known as the incident “disgusting.” “We should condemn this hatred all over the place it emerges,” he wrote. “We are able to’t settle for this as regular.”

My constituents woke as much as hateful & disgusting anti-Semitic graffiti exterior #UWS‘s new restaurant Miriam on West 74 & Amst.

I’ve been in touch w/@NYPD20Pct
& the restaurant.

I encourage our neighbors to help Miriam.
ON NOTICE: #HateHasNoHomeHere @ADL

— Linda B. Rosenthal “the #OriginalRosenthal” (@LindaBRosenthal) February 17, 2022

This newest anti-Jewish incident occurred as Mayor Eric Adams was scheduled to host a closed-door roundtable Thursday to deal with the rise of antisemitic incidents throughout town.

As The New York Jewish Week reported final week, antisemitic incidents have spiked dramatically to this point in 2022. The NYPD hate crimes unit reported 22 hate crimes in opposition to Jewish individuals from Jan. 1 via the primary week of February, in comparison with eight in the identical time interval final yr.

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