Councilwoman Cara Mendelsohn shared the photos on X saying the incident happened Saturday.
DALLAS — A Dallas councilmember said her home was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti over the weekend.
Councilwoman Cara Mendelsohn (District 12), who is Jewish, posted pictures on X, saying her fence was spray-painted red with the words “baby killer” and with inverted triangles.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, an inverted red triangle can symbolize “support for violent Palestinian resistance against Israel.
The Holocaust Encyclopedia says colored inverted triangles were also used in Nazi Germany to mark different Jewish prisoners, red being for political prisoners.
Mendelsohn’s photos also show what she described as a “pile of rocks and bricks and fake dead babies.”
She shared on X that the incident happened on Saturday.
“It’s unimaginable to me how our country has changed in the last 40 years,” she wrote in her post. “Folks, you’re going to need to stop sitting on the sidelines thinking everything will be ok. Things are not ok.”
Dallas police told WFAA that they did respond to a service call in North Dallas and saw graffiti when they arrived. They said their investigation is ongoing.
Mendelsohn’s post was in response to an advertisement created by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism (FCAS) that was posted on X. The original post said this advertisement would air during the Super Bowl, but it was uploaded to the FCAS YouTube channel in March 2023.
The foundation did air a new Super Bowl commercial about standing against hate.
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