MARK MECKLER: Senator Chuck Schumer says Jewish cemetery vandalized by anti-Semites, but the NYPD discovered who was really responsible.
Turns out, the Brooklyn cemetery that serves a large Jewish community wasn’t vandalized at all. After the NYPD hate crimes unit went out there to investigate — no doubt spurred on by the above social media posts — they discovered that these gravestones had not been turned over by hateful bigots. Instead, they were simply ignored for years… perhaps even decades.
That is actually really, really horrible. If loved ones place their family members in a cemetery, they do so with the expectation that the owners of the plots will not let that happen.
Neglect does seem somehow worse than vandalism.