Dozens of graves vandalized at Jewish cemetery in Hungary

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By The Associated Press and DPA

Dozens of graves were vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in Budapest, Hungarian police and local Jewish leaders announced Wednesday. A representative of the Hungarian Jewish community said some 130 tombstones were knocked down and many of them broken at the Kozma Street Jewish cemetery, located in the eastern outskirts of the capital.

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Acts of vandalism at Jewish sites are reported every year, but Wednesday's discovery was unusual because of the extent of the damage, and drew immediate reaction from the political parties.

Jewish graveyard in London desecrated

Also Wednesday, London police reported that vandals desecrated a Jewish graveyard in London, defacing and knocking over at least ninety headstones. The unidentified culprits scrawled racist slogans and Nazi swastikas across headstones in an attack on the cemetery in the east London district of West Ham.

According to police reports this is the third attack on a Jewish graveyard this year, with two happening in the past week alone.

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/588230.html

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1. Sad

But, it should be no real surprise to anyone.

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2. That's it's no surprise is the saddest thing of all.

Why do people persist in hating each other?

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3. George Orwell said it best.

"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." I think that pretty much sums up the state of our world.

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4. Yeah. That and the idiocy, the refusal to learn, to even read

a few SIMPLE BOOKS about history.

What can we do?

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5. The best we can.

In spite of hate directed at us, we must continue to educate. As disgraceful as these acts were, we can be thankful that no one was hurt.