Anti-Semitic Graffiti Found In Falmouth

FALMOUTH, MA — Police are investigating after discovering anti-Semitic graffiti in town twice this month. Last Thursday, police were called to the Falmouth Jewish Congregation on Hatchville Road after someone drew white supremacists symbols on an Israeli flag in front of the synagogue.

The flag was spray-painted with a swastika and with the numerals "14-88." The meaning of the number is a combination of two common white supremacists numeric symbols, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

"This should be a wake-up call for everyone who lives on Cape Cod," Rabbi Elias Lieberman, of the Falmouth Jewish Congregation, told the Cape Cod Times. “The Cape is not the picture-perfect postcard people like to think it is, or for that matter, any place in the country.”

The flag vandalism was the second anti-Semitic incident reported to Falmouth police this month. On Oct. 6, police were called to the Magansett Yacht Club on County Road after the vandalism was discovered on one of the docks.

Officers found two swastikas and a depiction of male genitalia. Police said the pictures were drawn with some type of liquid that hardened as it dried. The Department of Public Works has since cleaned the dock.

Anyone with information is asked to call Falmouth police at 774-255-4527.