Starbucks, Walgreens in California vandalized in anti-Israel protest
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Starbucks and Walgreens locations in Oakland, California, were vandalized during an anti-Israel protest on Thursday.
According to the Oakland Police Department, the demonstration began after 7:30 p.m. near the federal building on Clay Street, FOX 2 KTVU reported. Police say about 30 people were involved.
Demonstrators proceeded to break windows at a Starbucks and Walgreens and damaged an ATM at a Wells Fargo Bank, the department said.
Photos showed spray-painted graffiti on several buildings with messages including «Free Gaza» and «Death 2 Zionism.» Another vandal wrote «homeless lives matter.»
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Anti-Israel graffiti is seen on the windows of a Walgreens in Oakland, California. (KTVU / Fox News)
Additional images obtained by FOX 2 showed smashed windows and glass on an ATM. No arrests were initially reported.
The vandalism occurred about a week after Oakland’s largest menorah was reportedly desecrated on the sixth night of Hanukkah, prompting police to investigate the incident as a possible hate crime.
A smashed Walgreens window is seen in Oakland, California. (KTVU / Fox News)
«I think we’re feeling vulnerable,» Rabbi Jacqueline Mates-Muchin of Temple Sinai of Oakland told FOX 2. «Sometimes it is difficult for folks to differentiate between what is anti-Israel and what is anti-Jewish, but the desecration of the menorah was pretty clear-cut.»
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A smashed ATM is seen after an anti-Israel protest in Oakland, California. (KTVU / Fox News)
Oakland activists had organized a pro-Palestine vigil on
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