(July 5, 2024 / JNS) Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) wrote on social media that someone vandalized his office on Thursday “in a vile act of hate in which the posters of the more than 100 people still held hostage in Gaza (including 8 Americans) were ripped from the wall, shredded and tossed across the hallway.”

Calling the crime “a shameful act on any day, but especially on July 4, our country’s Independence Day,” Schneider put the vandalism in the context of other “hateful, un-American actions” by anti-Israel demonstrators that had also occurred.

On Thursday, Philadelphia police arrested six people in an anti-Israel demonstration that included the burning of an American flag.