Police of Arlington County. Virginia have promised to patrol regularly the Arlington-Fairfax Jewish congregation’s synagogue in nearby Arlington after vandals smeared its “Freedom for Soviet Jewry” sign with spray paint. Five swastikas and “Hitler was right” were painted on the sign. The neo-Nazi White Peoples Party is headquartered in the area.
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