Mark Nakagawa
Mark Nakagawa is a retired clerical leader of the United Methodist Church (UMC) who spread anti-Semitism during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists, in December 2023.
The incidents, which involved Nakagawa’s drawing a swastika on a Jewish neighbor’s property and reportedly calling her a “fascist,” occurred in the wake of Hamas terror atrocities and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were executed on October 7, 2023.
The Hamas terror attacks left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 7] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.
