{"id":80348,"date":"2019-04-16T14:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T18:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80348"},"modified":"2019-04-16T18:24:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T22:24:18","slug":"bbc-anti-semitism-threatens-romanias-fragile-jewish-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80348","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Anti-Semitism threatens Romania’s fragile Jewish community"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ugly scenes of smashed and toppled headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Romania have shocked the country’s dwindling Jewish community and prompted international condemnation.<\/p>\n

Vandals badly damaged 73 gravestones in the north-eastern town of Husi earlier this month, amid a surge in anti-Semitic attacks across Europe.<\/p>\n

“It’s a very disturbing event, but it’s nothing surprising,” said Maximillian Marco Katz, founding director of the Centre for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism in Romania.<\/p>\n

“It shows that anti-Semitism is alive, it doesn’t matter who did it,” he told the BBC.<\/p>\n

“They didn’t knock down two or three gravestones, they knocked down 73 gravestones – that takes some determination and it takes time.”<\/p>\n

A criminal investigation has been opened.<\/p>\n

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Anti-Semitism threatens Romania’s fragile Jewish community https:\/\/t.co\/ULUREiOhXC<\/a><\/p>\n

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