Ohio Applebee's defaced with antisemitic graffiti reading 'Jews work here'

An Applebee’s in Miamisburg, Ohio was closed Saturday after employees discovered the building had been defaced with antisemitic graffiti including a swastika and the messages “F— Jews” and “Jews work here.”

“We’ve seen the statistics, an 893-percent increase in antisemitic incidents in the United States over the past decade according to the ADL,” Cathy Gardner, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton, told the Dayton Jewish Observer, citing a recent audit of antisemitic incidents by the Anti-Defamation League.

She added that the vandalism came shortly before her federation’s ceremony marking Yom Hashoah, the Jewish Holocaust memorial day that was observed last week.

Miamisburg is a suburb of Dayton, Ohio. In 2023, Dayton became embroiled in another antisemitic incident when a school board member gave a Nazi salute and said “Sieg heil” at a public meeting.

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