Nearly 100headstones were overturned, damaged or broken at the Mount Carmel Cemetery, a Jewish burial place, in Northeast Philadelphia.A North Jersey man visiting his father's grave made the grim discovery Sunday morning, and Philadelphia police were later dispatched to the cemetery, at Frankford and Cheltenham avenues, around 9:30 a.m. for reports of vandalism, according to multiple reports.#BREAKING: Dozens of headstones at a Jewish cemetery in the #Wissinoming #Philadelphia have been broken and overturned pic.twitter.com/dqP4TeSTld— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) February 26, 2017Aaron Mallin, the man who discovered the acts of vandalism and contacted police, told 6ABC that he hopes it wasn't an anti-Semitic attack, but instead "just some drunk kids."But the apparent vandalism comes less than a week after more than 150 headstones were damaged at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis on Feb. 21.RELATED: Hate crime spike prompts New York to spend $25M to boost security at schools, day care centersThe following day, the New York City headquarters for the Anti-Defamation League received an anonymous bomb threat, prompting a brief evacuation. More than 70 Jewish community centers across the nation had received similar phoned-in threats since the start of the new year.President Donald Trump last week called the recent spate in acts of anti-Semitism "horrible" and "a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil."
