A Columbia University study, financed by the American Jewish Committee, has established that the young vandals who daubed swastikas on Jewish religious buildings in New York during the wave of swastika smearing at the end of 1959 were generally of normal intelligence but came from low delinquency areas and did poorly at school.
The study analyzed 91 incidents in the city, including defacement of Jewish property, bomb threats, threatening letters and assaults on Jews. About 60 per cent were found to be anti-Semitic. Of the boys who were investigated, 43 had been involved in 17 incider.
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