Mamdani Condemns Swastika Spray-Painted on Jewish School

While Jewish families across New York City were processing election results on Tuesday, vandals spray-painted multiple large red swastikas on the walls of Magen David Yeshivah, one of the largest Sephardic Jewish schools in Brooklyn, N.Y.

The New York Post reported that the suspect “wore all black” and “fled on foot.”

“Brooklyn’s Jewish community wakes up to two swastikas at Magen David Yeshivah in Gravesend,” representative Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) posted on social media, urging mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to condemn the graffiti.

City and national figures, including Republican Councilwoman Inna Vernikov , the Combat Antisemitism Movement and Joel Petlin, superintendent of the Kiryas Joel School District in Upstate New York, also linked the vandalism to Mamdani’s v