Bulgaria’s oldest synagogue daubed with antisemitic graffiti
Bulgaria’s most historic synagogue has been daubed with antisemitic slogans.
The perpetrators, who claim to belong to Antifa Bulgaria, daubed the walls of the Zion Synagogue in Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s oldest synagogue, during the weekend of 20th December.
The graffiti reportedly read “free Palestine” and equated the Israeli Government with the Nazis, in breach of the International Definition of Antisemitism.
Shalom, the organisation that represents Bulgarian Jewry, condemned the vandalism.
According to the Sofia Globe, nine incidents of antisemitism were reported in Bulgaria in 2019, none of which has resulted in a conviction.
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