Four swastikas were found painted on the pillars of the building in the Center City neighborhood of Philadelphia.
It comes after the ADL reported last week that anti-Semitism in the U.S. had hit an all-time high last year. More than 2,100 acts of assault, vandalism and harassment were reported across the county in 2019—the most since the ADL started tracking incidents in 1979, according to the group's annualThe report said 919 of the incidents involved vandalism where property was damaged in a manner that harmed or intimidated Jews. Swastikas were found in 746 of these incidents.
The states with the most incidents were New York with 430, New Jersey with 345, California with 330 followed by Massachusetts with 114 and Pennsylvania with 109. The five states in total accounted for almost half of all reported incidents last year.
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