Last November, vandals torched three cars , tried to burn a fourth, and scrawled anti-semitic graffiti on a nearby van and benches in the heavily Orthodox Jewish section of Midwood. Police still have made no arrests in the arson case, but they say it may have not been the hate crime it was once assumed to be : officials have told community members that they believe the attack was an insurance scam. “From day one, cops didn’t believe that it was an anti-Semitic incident because you never see Swastikas and KKK signs together,” one source told the Post. [ more › ]
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Anti-Semitic Midwood Vandalism Possibly An Insurance Scam, Not Hate Crime