Cobb Reporter

Within one week, two Cobb County high schools have been defaced with anti-semetic vandalism and included what a teacher student association described on Facebook as "disturbing pictures of swastikas and messages hate" in the days leading up to the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur.

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), the state's first Jewish senator, spoke out publicly against the hateful destruction at both schools, 11 Alive reported.

"Yom Kippur being a day for reflection, and reckoning, and atonement, and recommitment, it's fitting to take stock today of the threats to our pluralism, to tolerance, to democracy, to peaceful coexistence in our society and around the world," Ossoff said during a holy day service at Temple Emanu-El in Sandy Springs, according to 11 Alive.

Bathrooms at Alan C. Pope High School in Marietta were vandalized with anti-Semitic images on Sept. 10, according to 11 Alive.

Days later, at the start of Yom Kippur, which is the holiest day of the year in Judaism, hateful vandalism was discovered inside two bathrooms at Lassiter High School, 11 Alive reported. 

According to the news outlet, principals of both schools addressed the destructive behavior. Lassiter's principal said it would be investigated, while Pope's principal said what happened "will not be tolerated."