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Holocaust survivor endures more hate
Man, 89, finds swastika painted on his garage door.
By Nancy L. Othón
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted September 21 2006
When Holocaust survivor Abraham Rothenstein learned someone had painted a swastika on the garage door of his home west of Boynton Beach, what hurt most was that it happened here, on American soil.
[highlight]"Not in America," said Rothenstein, 89. "Not in the God Bless America."
Rothenstein, a native of Poland whose seven siblings and parents died during the Holocaust, said he has never encountered anti-Semitism on such terms since he came to the United States 57 years ago.[/highlight]
He and his wife, Edith, left their home early Sept. 14 for his hernia operation and later found someone had defaced their home with the hate symbol. The hate crime left the predominantly Jewish Cascade Lakes community abuzz.
An e-mail was sent to residents from the community's Jewish Heritage Club. The community's president said he planned to address the incident at Wednesday night's board meeting.
"I'm trying to calm people and reassure people that it's in the hands of the authorities," President Miles Alter said. "We hope it's an isolated incident."
There never have been similar incidents in the development, Alter said.
"We're not quite sure whether it was an act of a silly prankster," he said. "We really don't think there is anti-Semitism in the community."
Residents of the community have been speculating about the suspects and motive behind the crime, Alter said.
"Some people were a little surprised by it, shocked by it," he said. "Any time something like that happens, emotions run a little high."
Palm Beach County sheriff's Capt. Marty Bechtel said the culprits might be difficult to find.
"Without any witnesses it would be really tough to crack," Bechtel said. "A lot of times you'll find these are kids that don't have the slightest idea what they're trying to show."
In this case, Rothenstein said, he has an idea of who might be responsible for the act but he has no proof.
According to a 2005 Anti-Defamation League audit, the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Florida is rising. The agency reported 199 anti-Semitic incidents in the state in 2005. There were 173 incidents the year before, 102 in 2003 and 93 in 2002.
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"A careful study of anti-semitism prejudice and accusations might be of great value to many jews,
who do not adequately realize the irritations they inflict." - H.G. Wells (November 11, 1933)
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Posted : 21/09/2006 3:17 am
Dammit Jim get a pic if you can. I want to see if Abe managed to turn it the right way. I have some little respect for a jew who can paint a proper swastika. They're so terrified of that symbol. It takes a jew with real guts to paint it right. Is this a strong jew, or a weak one?
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Posted : 21/09/2006 4:08 am
“In this case, Rothenstein said, he has an idea of who might be responsible for the act but he has no proof.”
He must have washed the paint off his hands.
'My country is changing all around me. This is not the country that my forefathers built. It must be because those brown-skinned people are coming in and destroying it.' - Mark Potok the racist
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Posted : 21/09/2006 8:09 am
There should be a Holocaust® t.v. channel, "all holocaust, all the time". You could have standard holocost fun facts, lost relatives who were "dead", old Jews with spray paint, you know, stuff like that. 
Posted : 21/09/2006 8:26 am
Jews are worse than nigs. For the most part, nigs are getting over the victimization-card. There are very few Jews oppose holocaust racket.(Israel Shamir ect) Over all,a great portion are in lock-steps. Non dare to contradict the holyco$t racket that which would end they’re parasitism.
Posted : 21/09/2006 10:52 am
Dammit Jim get a pic if you can. I want to see if Abe managed to turn it the right way. I have some little respect for a jew who can paint a proper swastika. They're so terrified of that symbol. It takes a jew with real guts to paint it right. Is this a strong jew, or a weak one?
Yeah, they always do it at a right angle and turned the wrong way. Like a subtle form of spite.
Keeping anti-Semitism alive and kicking is an old favorite, a jewish pastime that harkens back to the good old days of yore, when being hated and despised by all was a regular badge of honor for the people who constantly need proof and praise as to their innate superiority.
And if the evil Nazis won't come along everyone once in a while to remind them of the symbol of Hitler's Third Reich, then old Murray or maybe Abraham will have to do it himself, just to set the community abuzz with whispers and knowing looks. Ugly heads rearing left and right.
Now old Abe will have a tale of persecution to tell his little grandkiddies. I can hear him now: "Little Moishe, one day I had to go in for a hernia operation. My cock was killing me. Do you know what I found painted on the garage door when I got home?..."
The "community" comes closer now, gathering around the candle of hope and peace, surrounded by the sickness and hate of the stupid Goyim. Jews truly are special, different, dare I say it, better than us. Which is why we envy them so.
Posted : 21/09/2006 11:27 am
Dammit Jim get a pic if you can. I want to see if Abe managed to turn it the right way. I have some little respect for a jew who can paint a proper swastika. They're so terrified of that symbol. It takes a jew with real guts to paint it right. Is this a strong jew, or a weak one?
LOL. Deadly.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06001/630907.stm
Posted : 21/09/2006 11:32 am
LOL. Deadly.
Classic "backward" swastika, signifying it's the jew's work. Pink too.
The holocaust is as much a part of their religion as Purim or anything else. If jews are still around in two thousand years (doubtful) they'll still be crying about the it.
Posted : 21/09/2006 1:07 pm