On the morning of June 12, employees of the Cosmic Craft Beer shop found the anti-Semitic message scrawled on its front window in an ugly echo of the Nazi-led campaigns to identify Jews during the Holocaust throughout Central and Eastern Europe, including on these same streets in 1942. The reappearance of the word “Jude” alongside a Star of David in downtown Bulgaria has alarmed the country’s Jewish community and the owner of a local store following a stormy weekend scrape with supporters of a parliamentary party whose fortunes have risen alongside scapegoat populism. On the morning of June 12, employees of the Cosmic Craft Beer shop found the anti-Semitic message scrawled on its front window in an ugly echo of the Nazi-led campaigns to identify Jews during the Holocaust throughout Central and Eastern Europe, including on these same streets in 1942. No suspects have been identified. But the vandalism followed tense standoffs with thugs from the far-right, nationalist Revival party, whose pugilistic leader and heavy-handed stunts have propelled it from also-ran to nearly 14 percent support nationally and 37 seats out of 240 in the current parliament during two years of deep political malaise.
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