Jewish community members in El Paso, Texas, received a shock Monday when they discovered a swastika and other graffiti at the city’s local Chabad-Lubavitch center.

According to Rabbi Yisrael Greenberg, who has directed the neighborhood center since 1986, phone calls have been pouring in from friends and neighbors since vandals defaced a monument and several of the building’s walls.

“Almost immediately after the discovery, our phones were flooded with calls from the city and law enforcement officials,” added Greenberg, who found the graffiti at about 1:00 in the afternoon. “While still an unconfirmed hate crime, this is a vicious expression of theft on the property of an organization that seeks to spread goodness in the city.”

The incident comes on the heels of an Anti-Defamation League report showing the highest rate of hate crimes in the United States in recent memory, and an FBI study concluding that some 66 percent of American hate crimes are directed at Jews and Jewish institutions.

“The people responsible for this vandalism will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” pledged El Paso Mayor John Cook. “The city intends to stand with Chabad and focus on spreading the message of good that they stand for.”