The Shomer: Vandals Strike Denver High School With Antisemitic, Racist, Homophobic Messages

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The Shomer: Vandals Strike Denver High School With Antisemitic, Racist, Homophobic Messages; Break Windows at Denver Academy of Torah


“I hate Jews/why do the big nosed rats boss us around”

That’s what the graffiti scrawled across a fence at George Washington High school said. Denver Public School officials discovered the vandalism early Monday morning, along with other racist and homophobic slurs on the property.

The same night, hateful vandals also struck at the Denver Academy of Torah — about a mile away — breaking windows with rocks and damaging an electrical box there, according to 9News.

“If we needed a reminder that our world is not yet the peaceful, embracing community that we would like it to be, we got one,” said Rabbi Raphael Leban, the managing director of The Jewish Experience, a non-profit located just a block away from George Washington High School.

To anyone who’s been paying attention for the last several years, that might sound like an understatement. In Colorado alone, hate crimes increased by as much as 34% between 2019 and 2020, according to the FBI’s annual hate crime report released on Aug. 30. That pattern far outpaced the average increase in hate crimes across the United States for the same period — about 6%. Even so, hate crimes in the United States last year were the highest in 12 years.

Read more: https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2021/10/the-shomer-vandals-strike-denver-high-school-with-antisemitic-racist-homophobic-messages-break-windows-at-denver-academy-of-torah/40407/