A retired California pastor has been caught on camera drawing a Swastika on his Jewish neighbour’s groceries.
At 10:15 p.m. on December 5, Leah Grossman approached her neighbour Mark Nakagawa after seeing him scribble on a seltzer box on her doorbell video.
When the video footage was presented to Nakagawa, he first denied drawing the Swastika and then stated he was attempting to educate her on the symbol’s origins.
Grossman said it wasn’t her first run-in with Nakagawa and claimed he had previously called her a fascist in a homeowners’ meeting for hanging an Israeli flag from her balcony after the October 7 attacks.
Speaking to CBS about the drawing, she said, ‘I just fell to pieces. Like I’ve never shook like that before. My toes were shaking.
‘I get emotional thinking about it because it reminds me of all the people I know—my family, my children.’
Her doorbell camera captured the event.
Outside the door, Nakagawa is seen stopping by her shopping bags and kneeling down to scribble something in black ink on a seltzer box.
Then, Grossman screams out to him from outside her front door, saying, “Is there a problem?”
He replies: ‘What?’ and she asks again, ‘Is there a problem?’ to which he says ‘No.’
She then directly asked him: ‘Is that a Nazi symbol?’
He said ‘No’ and then claimed that he was ‘just walking by here’ and didn’t know what the drawing was.
He continued to insist he had no idea what the sketch was, even when Grossman said she had seen him and told him about the camera.
As a single mother of two young boys, Grossman expressed her intimidation at what she saw to be anti-Semitic behaviour.
She told CBS: ‘What’s going on in the world has really opened up a crevasse of anti-Semitism, and I think people feel really emboldened to push Jewish people around. People just shouldn’t get away with this.’
She also said that Nakagawa had previously called her a ‘fascist’ for hanging an Israeli flag from her balcony.
When KCAL News questioned Nakagawa about the event, he first asserted that he had no idea how Grossman would respond to the symbol and then said that he was attempting to educate her about its meaning as a symbol of peace.
Nakagawa knew exactly what he was doing.
Who would have thought? An anti-Semitic pastor, great, huh? And how do people find any moral ground for picking on Jewish people like this?
Most haters will follow anything they read online so that they too can seem cool.
This man is just another religious hypocrite who lies, but these people are everywhere. Hate crime should be jail time.
I’m sure that this Jewish lady didn’t need a history lesson on a Swastika by this man, and this man is the devil in sheep’s clothing, and just having a religious title to their name doesn’t make this man moral.
I’m guessing that the term ‘Never Forget’ has been forgotten.
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