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Somebody came, we were not here and started to paint the doors with red paint, with, you know, like hands.
I mean, you put your bloody handprints, bloody hand, something like that.
Nassim Benjoya is standing outside a fairly nondescript, 300-year-old building in Izmir, Turkey.
In it's the Al Ghaza Synagogue and he's showing me the spot where vandals defaced its bright blue doors on the one year anniversary of Hamas brutal attack on Israel.
The synagogue is in a lively area of the city, Turkey's third largest, which Nassim calls home.
He's a prominent member of Izmir's historic Jewish community and has been working for more than a decade on restoring Jewish history in the city and promoting Jewish culture.
But that task is getting harder as the community faces rising hostility from some members of Turkish society as Israel, Israel's war in Gaza and the wider Middle east rages.
When this happened, of course we were in range and I wanted all the world, you know, come stand up and scream, you know, no more vandalizing cultural heritage, something like that.
So there were some groups that expressed solidarity and this is the best I could do.
That's okay.