Brooklyn, NY: Swastikas, Anti-Semitic Epithets, & Torched Cars Found in Jewish Neighborhood

Brooklyn, NY -- Bigots fueled by hatred and beer terrorized a heavily-Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood Friday, torching three cars, vandalizing a van and defacing other property with anti-Semitic messages.

Stunned residents on the targeted Midwood block awakened to thick black smoke pouring from the cars — and other hateful reminders of Nazi viciousness on Ocean Parkway.

"It was horrible," said 18-year-old Arlette Tebele, whose mother's charcoal-colored BMW X5 SUV was reduced to charcoal in places by the flames.

"They were trying to send a message," she said. "They're anti-Jew, anti—Semites."

Her brother, Bobby, was equally angry.

"It's not so much that the cars got blown up," he said. "It's the hatred behind it that's chilling. Of course, this would happen the one time I don't park in the driveway."

Eight nearby benches were spray-painted with Nazi swastikas and "SS" — the initials of Hitler's brutal Gestapo — and "f--k the Jews" was scrawled on a sidewalk.

Sandra Simone, a speech therapist at a nearby school, said it was no coincidence the hate attack came a day after the anniversary of Kristallnacht, when the Nazis in 1938 raided, ransacked and burned Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues across Germany.

Simone also tied the attack to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests, where signs blaming Jews for the economic meltdown have been spotted from time to time.

"There are crazy people in this world, who just have nothing to do but hate," she said. "This is a sign of the times — that somebody would be emboldened enough to do this."

Police recovered at least four gas containers — and a dozen beer bottles — from the block of Ocean Parkway, between Avenues I and J.

"There were Coronas everywhere," said one detective. "Looks like they had a party."

"We're canvassing gas stations and hardware stores a mile around," another detective added, describing the police search for the haters.

City Councilman David Greenfield's office offered a $1,000 reward for information about the culprits, and the Anti-Defamation League kicked in an additional $4,000.

A recent ADL survey counted 133 anti—Semitic incidents in the city in 2010 — 53 of them in Brooklyn.

"New York City is home to more than 8 million of the most open and tolerant people in the world," Mayor Bloomberg said.

"But even here, there are occasional incidents involving actions that are hateful or vicious or both."

Tebele said she was in an upstairs bedroom in her home that overlooks the street when she heard "laughing and screaming," about 5:30 a.m.

"It was a group of kids," she said. "There was a series of explosions. The three cars were all on fire. It spread from the first car, to the second car, to the third."

In addition to the BMW, the vandals incinerated a rented Jaguar and an Audi and spray-painted KKK, for Ku Klux Klan, on a red Ford van.

Officers from the local 66th Precinct and the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force are investigating the hate fest.

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[brooklynkid913]

Midwood is a Jewish neighborhood,and they are rascist themselves,but that's out of control

[HilarityBribo]

lolz

[peachrocker1]

i hate when ppl pronounce "or" like "ar" 'aur'. O-R makes the or sound. you wouldn't call someone an argan donor. yet he says hawribble.

[QWERTY34990]

@GTCism I see !

[GTCism]

@QWERTY34990 are you writing this comment to your self?

[QWERTY34990]

@QWERTY34990 You must not see many Anti-Semitic Anti-Rich Anti-Capital Anti-Jewish Bankers on You tube if you believe this is not what occupy wall street stands for Wow! what part of the globe are you from ? they will find the peolpe that's responsable for this crime so be careful with your answer, because I will remind you that you're were wrong. You should just save youself some embarrassment and look it up first.

[ProgressiveTyranny]

This story is not about Mr. Hikind's mother. It is about the current growing wave of anti-semitism right here in our land of liberty. It is supremely disturbing.

[domesticemergency]

@ExposedIslam There's a lack of clarity in what Mr. Hikind said, if not an outright contradiction. One moment he says his mother is a survivor who is still alive, the next he says she "went straight to the gas chamber." No, I don't think it was obvious that he meant she was sent to "the gas chamber part of Auschwitz." I'm still not clear what he meant.

He said something confusing; you accuse me of "denying testimonies" or even being disappointed his mother survived. There's no call for that.

[domesticemergency]

Am I the only one who finds it perplexing that Mr. Hikind's mother survived the Holocaust if she was taken straight to the gas chamber upon arrival at Auschwitz, which is what he said in this video?

[McBears1]

bad it is but this guy shows up when someone scrawls an incorrectly shaped swastika w/ a crayon or the wind blows over a menorah, he must think Heinrich Himmler is running around or a guy w/ a white pointed hood, truth is he is safer here than in Israel. In school I learned the guy who constantly cries when getting picked on gets picked on more