Hundreds’ of Jewish graves attacked in Philadelphia(United States)
Headstones were knocked over and damaged at the cemetery.

Police are searching for the vandals who damagednearly 500 headstones at a Jewish graveyard in Philadelphia.
Money is being raised to repair the graves and to identify and prosecute the attackers.
The vandalism comes less than a week after a Jewish cemetery near St Louis, Missouri, was defaced.
On Monday morning, more than a dozen Jewish Community Centers (JCC) in the US received telephone bomb threats.(sources)
The threats were made to JCC locations in Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
In a statement, the JCC’s David Posner said that government officials “must speak out – and speak out forcefully – against this scourge of anti-Semitism impacting communities across the country”.
“Actions speak louder than words. US Muslim community campaigns to repair Jewish cemetery”.
Situation of ‘disruption and anxiety’ for Jewish community.
A man visiting his father’s grave at Philadelphia’s Mount Carmel Cemetery on Sunday called police after finding that approximately 100 headstones had been knocked over.
Many of the headstones had been toppled over, and some had cracked in half.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that three adjacent Christian cemeteries were left undamaged.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney denounced the attackers, saying, “my heart breaks for the families who found their loved ones’ headstones toppled… Hate is not permissible in Philadelphia.”
Thousands of dollars have been raised to pay for the repairs and another $13,000 offered as a reward to catch the perpetrators.
On Saturday morning residents of a Buffalo suburb awoke to find bridges, cars, and a school playground defaced with anti-Semitic words and symbols.
Trump condemns threats against Jewish centres but can’t quell the criticism
“The president continues to condemn these and any other forms of anti-Semitic and hateful acts in the strongest terms”.
President Trump has been accused by some inter-faith and tolerance charity groups of not responding forcefully enough to these and other hate attacks, which watchdog groups say are happening with increased frequency.
The FBI is currently investigating over 50 bomb threats phoned into Jewish Community Centres.