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Beer fueled Midwood hate attack

Booze appears to be the fuel for the fiery hate that torched a string of cars in an anti-Semitic attack in an Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood.

Cops found 27 empty Corona bottles at the scene of a Midwood hate crime yesterday, in which someone set fire to three vehicles on a synagogue-filled stretch of Ocean Parkway and then scribbled swastikas and other shocking messages on cars and park benches surrounding the targeted cars.

“Whoever did this are intelligent bigots,” Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes told The Post.

The bottles will be tested for fingerprints and DNA, said Hynes.

The early morning attack sent flames shooting into the air and stunned the normally quiet neighborhood. It came just a day after the 73rd anniversary of “Kristallnacht,” the Nazis’ 1938 night of destruction in which Jews in Germany and Austria were beaten and attacked.

“Somebody was trying to make a statement. They were intelligent enough to know about Kristallnacht,” Hynes said.

Police in the 66th Precinct stepped up patrols in the neighborhood, and a private security force hired by the community, City Investigations, promised to station a watchful eye at the scene of the attack, where a van was tagged with “KKK” and someone painted the words “F–k Jews” on the sidewalk.

The horrifying incident unnerved residents.

“I’m afraid. I live on the corner. Someone could have gotten killed, it’s no joke,” said a woman who didn’t want to be named.

A resident who lives across the street from where the cars were set aflame, who gave her name only as Sarah, said the hate must stop.

“It’s horrible. I work at a holocaust museum and I teach every week how these types of things breed hatred,” the 60-year-old said. “I’m ready to fight. I’m so bitter.”