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Princeton police increase presence after antisemitic vandalism

Graffiti included references to “death to the IDF” and “globalize the intifada.”

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The Jewish Center, a Conservative congregation in Princeton, N.J. Credit: David Keddie via Wikimedia Commons.

The police department in Princeton, N.J., is reportedly increasing patrols around parks and the Jewish Center, a Conservative congregation in Princeton, after several anti-Israel and antisemitic vandalism incidents.

Five such incidents in August included graffiti stating “death to the IDF,” “global intifada” and “from the river to the sea,” the Daily Princetonian, a student paper at Princeton University, reported.

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