More antisemitic stickers found on Boston-area signs, poles

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Brookline, Massachusetts, police are investigating after antisemitic stickers were found over the weekend.

The stickers were on light poles, street signs and a business along upper Harvard Street.

The stickers showed a swastika replacing the Star of David on the Israeli flag with the words "Stop Funding Israeli Terrorism." WCVB blurred the symbol.

"This is an area with a large Jewish population and there’s a bakery in that area where they had a couple of stickers posted on their window," said Brookline police Deputy Superintendent Paul Campbell.

Police say 18 stickers were found in total.

"This is not the America I grew up in; it's not the America I know. You hear stories about this happening in Germany in the 30s or maybe in other places where antisemitism is rampant," said Rabbi Jason Rubenstein, the executive director of Harvard Hillel.

Last week, similar stickers were found on light poles and signs across Harvard University’s campus in Cambridge and around the Charles River.

So far, no arrests have been made in either incident. Cambridge police said they have obtained surveillance video and are going through it.

"Can’t say for sure if it’s the same individual, but that’s also part of what we’ll be looking into," Campbell said.

Brookline residents said they were outraged to learn of the stickers, but declined to talk about it publicly.

Brookline Select Board Chair Bernard Greene is speaking out, releasing a statement that reads in part: "Brookline has no toleration for and is united against hate. We are a community dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion and will join together to show we are strong and will support those who are targeted by these hateful symbols.”