2017 has seen a surge in Anti-Semitic crimes reported in AZ
These are the latest victims:
An East Phoenix family returned home from a Fourth of July vacation to discover a message of hate spray-painted across their mailbox.
A large swastika and the word "Jews" were painted on the brick mailbox of Ari and Shoshana Simones, who live near 22nd Street and Glendale Avenue.
The Arizona chapter of the Anti-Defamation League reports there has been an uptick of anti-Semitic incidents and crimes in Arizona in 2017. The total number of incidents involving vandalism, harassment and assault in Arizona recorded by the organization was four in 2015. That number jumped to 10 in 2016. So far this year, there have been 14 anti-Semitic incidents recorded.
"ADL Arizona is deeply troubled by this Anti-Semitic incident and the rise we have witnessed to date in 2017," said ADL Regional Director Carlos Galindo-Elvira in a statement to 12 News. "We continue with determined purpose to fight all forms and acts of bigotry and hate."
In March, four people were arrested in Chandler after someone contorted a family's menorah structure into a swastika.
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