Following this weekend’s cemetery vandalism, the Anne Frank Center issued another statement blasting Trump for giving “the oxygen of incitement to some of the most viciously hateful elements of our society”.
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“It’s criminal. This is beyond vandalism”, Detective Shawn Thrush told The Philadelphia Inquirer. “We are all in this together, and I pray that God’s power is with us”, said Muhaimin.
She says every headstone and grave marker will be replaced or repaired. Those who were cleaning the cemetery Sunday said closer to 500 headstones were overturned or damaged. Adler told the NY Times, “It’s horrific; it’s a desecration of a sacred Jewish space”.
The Catholic cemetery is about two miles away from the Jewish cemetery.
A Muslim American activist has vowed to help a Jewish cemetery where hundreds of headstones were vandalised. The vandalism occurred less than a week after a similar episode in a Jewish cemetery near St. Louis, where more than 150 graves were targeted.
“The story isn’t that we’re victims”, Zevit said. Fraternal Order of Police Lodge Five added ,000 to the reward.
Local leaders of all faiths have deplored the Mount Carmel incident, with some openly connecting the rise in hate crime-related incidents, including those in Philadelphia, to the election of President Donald Trump.
They set a goal to raise $20,000, but donors gave more than $130,000.
When he heard that a cemetery had been vandalized a few miles from his home, El-Messidi reportedly rushed to the cemetery to offer his support.
By Monday, more than 4,500 people had donated close to 5,000.
In a show of interfaith solidarity, a group of Muslims were among the people who helped to clean up the toppled stones.
Yosef Goldman, a local rabbi who was also at the cemetery, wrote in a separate post, “A caretaker for a nearby Quaker cemetery has been here for hours, and Muslim and Christian friends and colleagues are reaching out”.
“Anti-Semitism of this nature should not and must not be allowed to endure in our communities”, said the Jewish Community Center Association in response to Monday’s threats.
“I think we need a dialogue, we need to ask each other how we can help each other, how we can be of service”.
The incident was reported on Sunday after a man visiting the cemetery found that three of his relatives’ headstones had been knocked over.
Officers found about 100 others knocked down.
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In a statement released Sunday evening, the police department said the headstones were torn down sometime after dark on Saturday.
