CINCINNATI — After the news broke that Jew-haters had attacked a Jewish cemetery complex here, Socialist Workers Party candidates John Hawkins for U.S. Senate and Ned Measel for U.S. Congress in the First District spoke out.
“The cowardly toppling of 176 gravestones inside the Covedale Jewish Cemeteries on Cincinnati’s west side deserves the condemnation of all working people,” they said in a press statement. “This act of blatant Jew-hatred, discovered July 1, is the latest local manifestation of the increase in antisemitic attacks in this country and internationally since Hamas and similar organizations, sponsored by the reactionary regime in Iran, invaded southern Israel Oct. 7 and carried out a bloodthirsty massacre — a pogrom.
“Working people and the trade unions must oppose such acts, speak out against them, and organize to defend against them.”