Four school buses parked outside a Brooklyn yeshiva were discovered vandalized with swastikas and other antisemitic messages Monday morning, according to police. The buses were outside the United Talmudical Academy of Williamsburg when the damage was found, as reported by The New York Post.

The vandalism was carried out in black spray paint, police said. Photos posted by Williamsburg News showed the hateful markings spread across the buses, including swastikas and several written slogans targeting Jews and Israel.

Among the phrases scrawled on the vehicles were “F–k Jews,” “F–k Israel,” “Free Palestine,” and “America First,” according to police and the published photos. The wording appeared alongside the swastikas on the parked school buses.

SHOCKING: @WspuShomrim and the @NYPD90Pct are currently investigating a hate crime following the discovery of antisemitic graffiti spray-painted on several Jewish school buses. https://t.co/W5HhwVlKzy

— WILLIAMSBURG NEWS (@WMSBG) November 2, 2026

Someone affiliated with the yeshiva discovered the vandalism at approximately 9:50 a.m., police said. That person called 911 after finding the four buses marked with the symbols and phrases.

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The United Talmudical Academy of Williamsburg is located at Bedford Avenue and Williamsburg Street West. The buses were parked outside the academy when the markings were discovered Monday morning.

No arrests had been made in the hours following the discovery, according to police. Authorities also had not immediately released any descriptions of a possible suspect connected to the vandalism.

The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the incident. Police did not announce the identification of any person allegedly responsible for spray painting the school buses.

The absence of a suspect description left authorities without any publicly disclosed identifying information about who carried out the vandalism. Police provided no immediate announcement of an arrest as the investigation continued.

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The incident came less than a month after the same yeshiva received a bomb threat by phone, authorities said. That threat was made on Oct. 9 and prompted a police response at the school.

The Oct. 9 threat followed another similar call placed only minutes earlier, according to authorities. In that earlier call, someone threatened the Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School.

Both schools were evacuated out of an abundance of caution after the threats, police said. The evacuations allowed specialized NYPD personnel to search the buildings before students and others could safely return.

The NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit and K9 teams conducted sweeps of both schools following the telephone threats. Police ultimately deemed both locations safe after those searches were completed.

Monday’s vandalism added another investigation at the United Talmudical Academy of Williamsburg less than a month after the bomb threat. This time, investigators were examining four buses covered with black spray paint outside the academy.

The NYPD reported last month that hate crimes had risen by nearly 13% during the first nine months of the year. That increase was measured against the number reported during the same nine month period last year.

Incidents targeting Jews accounted for more than half of the hate crimes reported during that period, according to the NYPD. The figures placed those incidents at the center of the overall increase disclosed by police.

The Hate Crime Task Force investigation into the vandalized buses remained active after the Monday morning discovery. With no arrests and no suspect description immediately available, police had not publicly identified the person who spray painted the vehicles.

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