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Jewish cemetery becomes the fresh hunt of rising Antisemitism in US

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Feb 28, 2017: The Jewish cemetery of Mount Carmel in the Wissinoming neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia was found vandalized on Sunday morning, the perpetrators are still unidentified. The vandalism was discovered on Sunday morning by a man visiting his father's grave. According to a detective of Philadelphia Police Department, 75 to 100 headstones have been knocked over and few are broken. This incident happened less than a week after the vandalism of another Jewish cemetery- the St. Louis cemetery which contains the remains of Holocaust survivors, where 154 headstones were damaged according to CNN.

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In the month of January this year, there were 48 bomb threats in different Jewish centers across the country.

A fund-raising campaign was launched by two Muslim American activists Linda Sarsour and Tarek El-Messidi to pay for the knocked over headstones after the cemetery of St Louis was vandalized, and raised more than $1,30,000. Some of the extra funds would go for the restoration of the Philadelphia cemetery, El-Messidi had written on Facebook.
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Prepared by Upama Bhattacharya. Twitter @Upama_myself

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