A swastika was etched on the glass door of Chabad of Utah in Salt Lake City on Motzei Shabbos.
Shliach Rabbi Avremi Zippel posted the photo on Twitter, showing the entrance to Chabad Lubavitch of Utah with a swastika scratched into the glass door.
“We will not cower in fear,” he wrote.
“This is the first time we’ve had to encounter something like this,” Zippel told The Salt Lake Tribune.
Zippel believes the vandalism is related to recent escalation of violence between Israel and Gaza. He said the FBI had recently encouraged the synagogue to be on high alert with the events that have unfolded in the Middle East.
“Beyond the property damage, which is upsetting, to have that kind of sentiment scratched into glass on a synagogue in 2021 in Salt Lake City, I have to say, really kind left us really shook,” Zippel told the Salt Lake Tribune.
A swastika scratched into the front window of a synagogue.
May 2021.
Salt Lake City, Utah.
We will not cower in fear.#AmYisraelChai pic.twitter.com/7hRqzUF9nc
— Avremi Zippel (@UtahRabbi) May 16, 2021
