Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has condemned the “shocking sight of rising antisemitism – a swastika sprayed on a car on Yom Kippur in Britain” after a car was daubed with a Nazi symbol in Bristol on Monday.
Avon and Somerset Police confirmed they had launched an investigation into the incident after receiving a phone call from a Jewish resident reporting the appearance of a large swastika in neon yellow paint on a black BMW in the city’s Waters Road area.
In an unexpected intervention, President Rivlin, who spotted the incident after details of it appeared on social media, tweeted: “Words of condemnation are not enough. We need Holocaust education and remembrance so governments and societies everywhere actively challenge this threat to Jews.”
Local resident Nick Helfenbein said: “We woke up to our neighbour’s car tagged with a giant neon swastika. It’s Yom Kippur, and this makes me sick both as a Jew and as a human.
