QUEENS’ SYNAGOGUES, HOMES TAGGED WITH SWASTIKAS:
A group of teens are believed to be responsible for a bunch of swastikas and pro-Nazi graffiti that turned up in Queens overnight. Spots targeted included two synagogues.
According to police sources, the string of incidents that occurred in Forest Hills and Rego Park during the early hours of Monday is being investigated as a hate crime. The investigation remains ongoing, with the 112th Precinct and the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force involved.
Much of the extensive hate speech was scrawled outside of the Rego Park Jewish Center located at 97-30 Queens Blvd., at about 1:16 a.m. on May 4; the dastardly acts were caught on the building’s surveillance camera.
In the footage, the group of four teenagers wearing hoodies could be seen sidling up to the building before spraying the hateful Nazi symbol and the name “Hitler” beside it.
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Sen. Gillibrand also posted a statement:
I am horrified by this morning's antisemitic graffiti in Queens. Targeting synagogues and Jewish homes is not just simply vandalism, but a hate crime meant to threaten and instill fear.
Jewish New Yorkers deserve to worship and live without fear of intimidation. This city cannot…
— Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (@gillibrandny) May 4, 2026
Related: With Mills out, Democrats line up behind Platner as he reiterates his vision for the party:
“Democrats are dedicated to fighting back against the chaos of the Trump administration by defeating the Republicans who enable his harmful agenda and that includes Susan Collins,” Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said in a joint statement. “After years of allowing Trump’s abuses of power, Senator Collins has never been more vulnerable and we will work with the presumptive Democratic nominee Graham Platner to defeat her.”
As Mary Katharine Ham tweeted:
I think if one is trying to figure out if a candidate is sympathetic to Nazis, one of the most important tests is whether the candidate knowingly got a death’s head tattoo signifying an elite, brutal group of SS officers and kept it until the second he wanted to run for Senate… https://t.co/vRjQAQ2kIF
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) May 3, 2026
Liz Mair adds, “He either is a serious person and all this stuff deserves to be treated seriously or he’s just a dipshit too online Internet weirdo who shouldn’t be entrusted with legislating even the name of Post Offices. Seems pretty simple to me.”