A hateful vandal scrawled the abhorrent message, “Kill the Jews” on the wall of a Manhattan subway station this week, authorities said Friday.
The antisemitic missive was written in black marker in the 34th Street-Herald Square station — alongside what appears to be a misshapen swastika.
It was reported to the MTA around 7:20 p.m. Wednesday, police said.
“And they claim that antisemitism and anti-Zionism are not the same…,” Rachel Kastner, a Long Island native, film producer and public speaker living in Tel Aviv, posted to Instagram with a photo of the offensive vandalism.
The graffiti was removed before the NYPD was notified Friday. Instagram / @rachelraykay
The vandalism is being investigated, cops said. Helayne SeidmanThe NYPD was notified of the crime on Friday, but by then, the graffiti had already been removed, sources said.
“Bigotry will not be tolerated in the transit system,” MTA spokesperson Michael Cortez said in a statement. “When disgusting acts of vandalism are identified, they are quickly removed.”
The offensive message was discovered the same week that the iconic Jewish-owned 2nd Avenue Deli on the Upper East Side was also defaced with a swastika.
Similar sickening vandalism was later found across the street.
