Anti-Semitism on the Rise! Vandals Target Historic Jewish Cemetery in University City, Destroyed over 100 Gravestones

 Investigators with the University City Police Department are working to determine who knocked over or damaged dozens of headstones at a local Jewish cemetery Thursday morning.



Police would not say if they considered the vandalism at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery to be a hate crime.



It is believed there was some organization behind the crime, meaning this was not the act of one individual.



The tombstones vandalized are in an older section of the cemetery; much of which pre-date 1960.



A steady stream of people were stopping by to see if the toppled headstones belonged to any of their family members who are buried at the site.



"These are holocaust survivors that are in here they shouldn't have to endure anymore trauma let them be settled," said Robin Rickerman whose elders including great aunts and uncles are buried at the gravesite.



"I can't believe people would do that anywhere to anyone, it's just wrong," said Golda Burke whose grandparents on her dad side are buried on the other side of the vandalized site.



"It's not ok," she said, "it's never ok to desecrate the dead."