NEW YORK, NY – A lower Manhattan synagogue was targeted recently by anti-Israeli graffiti, leading police with the city’s 1st Police Precinct to open a hate-crime investigation in to the matter.
According to the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force, on Thursday, February 2, an unidentified individual approached a mobile Mitzvah Tank Synagogue at 575 Broadway shortly after 4pm.
The suspect graffitied the word “PALESTINE” on the exterior of a synagogue vehicle. The suspsect then fled into the subway system.
Police are asking the public to assist in identifying the suspect.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or on Twitter @NYPDTips.