By Collin Anderson, The Washington Free Beacon

Jewish-owned businesses in Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman’s New York district were defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti that read, “Genocide supporter,” an accusation Bowman himself hurled at Israel following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.

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 Local police discovered the graffiti early Thursday morning at two stores in the Golden Horseshoe Shopping Plaza, which is located across from the Jewish Community Center of Mid-Westchester. Both stores display “We stand with Israel” signs in their windows, and both are Jewish-owned. Police are investigating the vandalism as possible hate crimes.

In a Thursday statement, Bowman condemned the vandals for “stoking divisions and hatred” and called the graffiti “unacceptable.” Omitted from that statement, however, was any mention of Bowman’s own rhetoric disparaging the Jewish state. Bowman in November attended a “ceasefire now” protest outside of the White House, which saw him deliver a fiery speech accusing Israel of “mass murder,” “genocide,” and “ethnic cleansing.”

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 “We demand a permanent ceasefire,” Bowman said. “And the reason is simple: We are against mass murder, we are against genocide, we are against ethnic cleansing, we are against the continued slaughter of civilians, we are against the mass murder of children.”

“We have all read about genocides,” Bowman continued. “I cannot believe I’m living through one. And I cannot believe I’m living through one, and the U.S. government is condoning it and being complicit! Shame!”

It’s unclear if Bowman believes those comments stoked “divisions and hatred.” The congressman did not return a request for comment.

The anti-Semitic display comes as Bowman faces a primary challenge driven in part by his hostility toward Israel. In addition to his November speech, Bowman has said both Israel and Hamas are to blame for Oct. 7 and argued that supporting an Israeli ceasefire is “what it actually means to be Jewish.”