Pittsburgh, PA – The Squirrel Hill community woke up Thursday morning, the day before the city was set to mark the fifth anniversary of the violent rampage at the Tree of Life synagogue in which 11 congregants were shot to death, to pro-Palestine graffiti scrawled across the front of Allderdice High School in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood.
The”Free Palestine” graffiti happened during additional heightened tensions in Jewish communities across the country following the Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel that saw Hamas, the Iran-backed terror group that controls Gaza, launch an unprovoked and violent surprise attack on Israel, killing thousands, including Americans, and taking over 200 people hostage.
“The day before the fifth anniversary of the deadliest antisemitic attack in this country’s history, it is beyond the pale that this type of thing would happen in this neighborhood,” he said. Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), a Scranton Democrat, said in a response to this reporting that he called the principal of Allderdice and the rabbi from the Tree of Life over the incident.
