Police arrest 22-year-old Ian Jacob Baron for allegedly spray-painting 'death 2 Zionists' and 'work will set u free' all over Maryland synagogue walls. Washington police said Thursday a 22-year-old man arrested for allegedly vandalizing a Maryland synagogue earlier this week was adopted in the past by Jewish parents, The Washington Post reported.
Earlier this week, anti-Semitic phrases such as “death 2 Zionists" and "work will set u free," (after the infamous Auschwitz death camp sign reading "Arbeit Macht Frei"), were spray-painted through out the grounds of the B’nai Shalom Synagogue of Olney near Washington D.C.
Ian Jacob Baron, who at first denied the allegations and then admitted he was behind the crime, was known to the police as homeless and used to hang out in a shack which stated at the entrance that it was for "White Only!," police officers told the Washington Post.
According to the D.C. police, Baron was associated with several radical U.S. groups, and was convicted in the past in relation to crimes of a similar nature, defacing two private properties in the area, painting a swastika on a tree, and painting two mailboxes and painting a partial swastika on a driveway.
Haaretz
