He seems so far to be giving very mixed signals when talks of civilian casualties in both Israel and Palestine in the same sentence (the "even handed" approach). Unfortunately for him, Jews aren't vandalizing mosques in Chicago, so there is no wiggle room for him on the synagogue vandalism issue.
Don't know. In general I'd say it's not a Presidential issue, but he did interfere with a minor labor issue in Chicago post-election, so a comment wouldn't be completely inappropriate.