Vile antisemitic graffiti scrawled on Mexicos top court during protests against countrys first Jewish president

Vile antisemitic graffiti was scrawled on the entrance to Mexico’s top court over the weekend as protests against the country’s first Jewish president, socialist Claudia Sheinbaum, turned violent.Pictures showing the words “Jewish whore” spray-painted in Spanish on the building’s main entrance in downtown Mexico City were shared widely Saturday after another day of anger during the so-called Generation Z march against crime and alleged government corruption.Alongside the insult, a Star of David with a large red cross daubed over it was also visible.A demonstrator wearing a swastika-emblazoned t-shirt and a ski mask was featured in other pictures from the rally in Mexico City’s enormous Constitution Plaza.The protests occurred amid high crime and in the wake of a series of assassinations seen as targeting opponents of Sheinbaum, with the latest being the murder of Carlos Manzo, a local mayor, Nov.5 during a Dia de los Muertos event.Saturday’s demonstration ended in violent clashes in which about 120 people were injured — 100 of them police officers — as thugs armed with rocks, sticks, chains and fireworks attacked the cops who were guarding the presidential palace, according to Secretary of State for Mexico City Pablo Vasquez.Mexican authorities have yet to comment on the antisemitic nature of some of the protesters.But Israeli officials issued a strong condemnation of the graffiti, which followed a largely peaceful protest by thousands of opponents of Mexico’s leftwing government.“Israel strongly condemns the antisemitic and sexist insults directed at Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum,” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said in a statement shared in both English and Spanish.“There is no place for such attacks in political discourse.

All forms of antisemitism, in any context, must be unequivocally rejected.”...