The graffiti, which police are investigating as a hate crime, conscripted Effy’s into a growing, dismal club of New York City kosher restaurants that have been vandalized.
Matthew Karelefsky, 46, was convicted last month of charges including attempted murder, arson and assault for the crime in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Midwood.
Irish people who back the Palestinians often ground their sympathies in the perception that both peoples were, or are, colonized — the Irish by the United Kingdom, and the Palestinians by Israel.