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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 patrol early Thursday noticed a swastika and the phrase "Jews are guilty" graffitied on the wall of the...

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. Police say city sanitation workers painted over the graffiti this morning. St. Petersburg Police “...