Case #7
'All Jews should die and go to hell': Man arrested for string of anti-Semitic hate crimes
A family business dispute is said to have driven a man to make anti-Semitic hate calls to elderly women and paint swastikas on their doors.
The man, 56, of Manhattan, New York, was arrested yesterday and charged with aggravated assault as a hate crime.
The man allegedly snarled down the phone: 'All Jews should die and go to hell,' when he called one of the victims, aged 80, on December 11.
He is also said to have called two other elderly ladies last week with similar anti-Semitic messages.
The threatening calls were said to have taken place over several weeks and he is believed to have left similar messages on their voicemail.
A police spokesman said: 'He threatened to kill the other individual on the phone as well as her relatives. He said basically that all Jews should die and go to hell.'
He is also suspected of scrawling swastikas in a heavily Orthodox Brooklyn neighbourhood.
The man used to work for his family's business in New Jersey which imports and exports socks.
Sources told the Post he left to start an off-shoot company but it recently failed and he is believed to have taken out his frustrations.
Police were called to a home in Brooklyn which had been spray painted with a large swastika, two smaller ones and the words Die Jews.
More hateful graffiti was found on the front door of a home across the street, sources said.
Though he has not been charged in the vandalism incidents, he is the number one suspect.