"The United States' Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism Elan S. Carr, condemned the antisemitic graffiti placed on the Beth Israel Congregation building and the damage inflicted upon other kosher stores in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles on Monday.
The vandalism came amid protests over the killing last week of George Floyd, an African-American man, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Carr also referred to the content of the antisemitic graffiti scrawled in the synagogue, making a link between antisemitic attitudes and anti-Zionist or anti-Israel sentiments.
'I just visited Congregation Beth Israel, the scene of last night's appalling vandalism. This graffiti is yet more evidence that anti-#Zionism is #Antisemitism,' he said on Twitter..."