Five headstones were found toppled Thursday morning at the Waad Hakolel Cemetery, also known as the Stone Road Cemetery, in the city in western New York, according to News 10 NBC WHEC.
‘’Recent threats targeting Jewish Community Centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week’s shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be a Nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all its forms,’’ said US President Donald Trump as he opened his much anticipated address to a special joint session of the American Congress by condemning the recent spate of anti-Semitic incidents across the country.
Following a new wave of bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) and day schools in several US states, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued a security advisory to Jewish institutions across the country.
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has condemned the desecration of the Mount Carmel Jewish Cemetery in Philadelphia as a “despicable and cowardly act of hatred” and urged citizens and local authorities across the United States to be vigilant against all signs of anti-Semitism.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre expressed rage at the ruling by an investigating magistrate in Creteil, a Paris suburb, who rejected the anti-Semitic character of a December 2014 violent attack on a young Jewish couple, and the decision to close the case.
Malcolm Hoenlein, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, has called for world leaders to convene a World Conference on Anti-Semitism similar to the international gatherings convened in Brussels in 1970 and 1976 to address the plight of Soviet Jews.
