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- An unidentified person smashed windows and spray-painted a Capital One branch on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
- The graffiti read “Drop Elbit” and “Pal Action,” referencing an Israeli defense firm and an activist group.
- The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is probing the vandalism as possible bias criminal mischief and antisemitic hate crime.
- City Council Speaker Julie Menin and the UJA-Federation of New York condemned the act as antisemitic.