A synagogue in the South American country of Chile was vandalized this past weekend, in the latest burst of antisemitism around the globe.

The façade of Santiago’s century-old Bikur Cholim synagogue was defaced with red paint on Saturday night, while antisemitic posters were hung on the wall stating, “Jew, your silence is cooperation with Israel’s genocide,” along with an image of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depicted with a bullet hole in his forehead.

“Acts of hatred cannot be relativized, normalized or justified under political or ideological slogans: they must be condemned forcefully across the board,” the Jewish Community of Chile wrote Sunday in a post on X. “Vandalism against a sacred place is not an attack against a community, but against the coexistence and peace of the ent

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