A state Assembly member is calling for a hate crimes investigation after her Manhattan district office was splashed with white paint and a vulgar, anti-Semitic note was left under the door.
“We will never be intimidated by this criminal act,” Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright, a Democrat first elected in 2014, said in a message Tuesday. She said police are investigating the Monday night vandalism.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie condemned the incident.
“The Assembly majority has always been very clear that we have a zero tolerance policy for any form of hate, including anti-Semitism,” Heastie said in a statement Tuesday.
Seawright hosted a virtual town hall on fighting anti-Semitism last month and held a similar forum last year after swastikas were found on a nearby fitness complex.
(AP)
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The most deadly attack on Jews in U.S. history, unprecedented rise in anti Semitism in the last three and a half years.
Unprecedented?! We’re not even nearly at the level of antisemitism during the Father Coghlin years.
Almost all the attacks and incidents have been committed by Trump-haters, by non-whites, and by Democrats.
rt, the ADL is still FALSELY listing the fake bomb threats to JCCs in 2017 as antisemitic! WIthout those the numbers drop significantly.