The stand holding a menorah was vandalized on the last night of Hanukkah along Oakland's Lake Merritt with a hateful message.
A hateful message was written on a concrete slab near a menorah on the last night of Hanukkah along Oakland 's Lake Merritt – the second time in as many years. "Israelis are the new Nazis" was scrawled on the concrete base of the Jewish symbol on Wednesday night, the Jewish Community Relations Council first reported in a video on social media. Last year, another menorah was also vandalized on the sixth day of Hanukkah.
Chabad Rabbi Dovid Labkowski and JCRC executive director Tyler Gregory both called Oakland "ground zero" for Bay Area antisemitism. "Every week, we have graffiti praising Hamas or praising Sinwar," Labkowski said on Thursday, referring to Hamas' leader, Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Sinwar who was killed in October. "It's very alarming.
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