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Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Florida Holocaust Museum Thursday evening in a show of solidarity following the attack on the museum.

Police in St. Petersburg, Fla., are investigating antisemitic graffiti discovered at the Florida Holocaust Museum on Thursday as a possible hate crime.The museum reported that swastikas and other hateful rhetoric including "The Jews are guilty," were found spray-painted in black on the walls.Police officers on their patrols downtown noticed the graffiti around 4 a.m. and city sanitation workers painted over the vandalism shortly after,...

Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., on the rise of anti-Semitic attacks in the United States. Anti-Semitic graffiti tagged outside the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg this week has angered and upset Holocaust survivors and others in the community. "We left Europe to come to a free country like the U.S. where we thought this would not happen," John Rinde, a Jew who emigrated from Poland as a child to escape Nazism, told FOX 13 of Tampa.  Police were investigating the crime after officers on pat...

The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg was tagged with a swastika followed by the phrase, Jews are guilty, in the latest anti-Semitic act of aggression.

Graffiti at Florida Holocaust Museum being investigated as hate crime, police say St. Petersburg Police and last updated 2021-05-27 12:56:45-04 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — St. Pete Police detectives are investigating a hate crime after someone spray-painted "The Jews are guilty" with swastikas on the side of the Florida Holocaust Museum. According to a press release, patrol officers spotted the anti-Semitic graffiti around 4 a.m. on Thursday along the 1st Avenue South side of the museum. Poli...

The Florida Holocaust Museum was vandalized last night with graffiti including swastikas and the words, “The Jews are guilty.” This act, part of an...

Swastika, Jews are guilty message spray-painted on Holocaust Museum in St. Pete, police say By FOX 13 news staff Published  Dan Matics reports. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The words "Jews are guilty," along with a swastika, were spray-painted on the side of the Holocaust Museum in downtown St. Petersburg, police said. Officers who were on patrol noticed the graffiti around 4 a.m. Thursday along the 1st Avenue South side of the building. The message was spray-painted in black. City sanitation worke...

Jews Are Guilty: Antisemitic Message Spray-Painted Outside Holocaust Museum On 5/27/21 at 2:01 PM EDT The south side of the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, was found graffitied in black spray paint with a swastika and a message that read "Jews are guilty." Officers spotted the graffiti while on patrol around 4 a.m. on Thursday. According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, city sanitation officials have already painted over the message. #stpetepd investigating hate gra...

Why we should discuss racism at Holocaust museums   What is a good museum? A good museum serves its entire community. A good museum speaks to society. A good museum challenges you, sparking a social and cultural conversation. That means that a good museum will, from time to time, face controversy. Are Holocaust museums an exception? Must they avoid tough conversations about contemporary society? Is their sole purpose to memorialize the past? Of course not. On Nov. 2, the Holocaust Memorial Res...