Holocaust memorial vandalised with swastika graffiti
Holocaust memorial vandalised with swastika graffiti
A swastika was left on a wall of the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza in Philadelphia
A swastika was left on a wall of the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza in Philadelphia
A Holocaust memorial in Philadelphia has been vandalised with a swastika as acts of antisemitism continue to rise across the country.
The Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza said in a post that earlier this weekend, an unidentified figure vandalised a wall of the plaza, drawing a large swastika.
The memorial’s post described it as “a disgusting act of antisemitism that comes amid a staggering spike in anti-Jewish hatred across Philadelphia and the country more broadly”.
While the swastika graffiti has been removed from the wall, according to NBC, the organisation is asking anyone who may have any information about the vandalism to contact the Philadelphia Police Department.
Not this shit again. American Jews are not Israeli. American Muslims are not Hamas. We're Americans. We have nothing to do with what's going on over there. Stop making us the targets of your bigotry!
78People have held hatred for Jews long before this. I doubt the people putting up swastikas are doing so from bleeding hearts over Palestine.
It's just that now their hatred is perceived as more socially acceptable to be public with given the general "anti-Zionist" attitudes.
For a lot of white supremacists, 'Zionist' has been a code word for 'Jews' for a very long time now. And their hatred for 'Zionists' has a lot more to do with antisemitism than it does with any concerns over territory boundaries.
So they've been rejoicing over everyone suddenly seeming to be in agreement that their hatred is justified, and are now acting out more broadly.
38Maybe, in Toronto the pro-Palestine people are the ones attacking Jewish people/businesses
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If by "we" you mean Americans, then we certainly do have a lot to do with funding and supplying Israel's genocide machine. I'm not justifying what happened, just pointing out that our leaders are making us complicit in all this shit.
3I didn't fund anything. No one asked me whether or not I wanted to fund Israel. But I get shit for it anyway because of who my ancestors are.
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Exactly! I may dislike what Israel is doing, but my Jewish neighbors aren’t the ones doing it. In fact my Jewish friends often are also mad about it. And my Muslim friends are mad about Hamas.
The only reason to judge American Jews and Americans Muslims is because all y’all are Americans and that’s something we can all be judged for together.
Jackass antisemites…
1But the TV and radio said...
1I hate it. I've never been to Israel, I never want to go to Israel, I have no interest in supporting Israel. My mother's family has been in the U.S. since at least the early 1900s, some of them at least a generation earlier. My father is an immigrant- from England. I was born and raised in Indiana. Yes, Israelis and I share an ethnic background. That's pretty much it. I don't even know any Hebrew. I cheated for my Bar Mitzvah. I have so much more in common with pretty much every American Muslim than I do any Israeli. In fact, and I realize this is totally anecdotal, but every Israeli I have met has been an arrogant prick. It doesn't especially endear me to them.
Good pickles though. Try Israeli pickles if you haven't. You don't have to get them from Israel, they're easy to make.
http://mangersansfrontieres.weebly.com/blog/israeli-pickles
That's the one thing I'll give Israelis. Based on the Israeli restaurant that used to be near where I used to live, they have decent food. Except the desserts. Sesame halvah. Bleah.
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What? Nazis have been doing this since their creation. This isn't something that just started because Israel wants to do a "totally not genocide trust me bro".
Honestly I'm glad they're dumb enough to use spray paint on the side of the Holocaust museum...again. It's easy enough to clean and they're not destroying anything.
This happens so often I had to double check it was a new article.
As long as Nazis exist Jewish people will always be the target of their bigotry. So I guess I don't understand where you are coming from.
-1It ebbs and flows. There is a sharp increase on attacks on both Jews and Muslims in America since the war started.
This is because no matter how many generations back our families have been here, Jews and Muslims are still treated as foreigners on our own soil. And when a war involving Jews and/or Muslims starts, it emboldens bigots and creates new ones.
American Muslims got treated like absolute dogshit after 9/11. It was heartbreaking. You can't really believe that it was the same for them before 9/11.
And, frankly, people who aren't outright bigots need to be reminded at times like this that we're their neighbors and have a lot more in common with them than we do with people across the world because they can be swayed by propaganda.
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At this point in our fucked up storyline, the swastika might have been drawn by an American Jew showing solidarity with Israel's Palestinian genocide...
-10Hamas appreciates your conflation of israelis with Nazis, that's literally their social media strategy for westerners.
“Avoid entering into a political argument with a Westerner aimed at convincing him that the Holocaust is a lie and deceit; instead, equate it with Israel’s crimes against Palestinian civilians.”
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Antisemites can fuck off and die. We’ve got no room for this Nazi ass bullshit
33I fucking hate Nazis
24Especially Illinois nazis.
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I hope they catch the racist Trump supporters responsible for this.
8For what it's worth, and hopefully thats not nothing, my personal expirences with American Jews paints them much more progressive and compassionate than the typical American. I abhor that they get caught up in this nonsense, especially when so many of them even shed off the propaganda around 'birthright' and know exactly what's happening and have to reckon with the fact that a far right state conducts this violence in their name and religion.
Shame on whoever uses current events as cover for stuff like this. Not only is that symbol never okay, but if you're gonna bring any kind of heat to someone, make damn sure it's someone responsible for what you're upset about. This is just lazy and racist.
8Trump’s America want to be seen now. The light are on, yet the cockroaches won’t scurry.
6Israel using the good Jewish name as a shield for their Genocide is the root cause of rising Anti-Semitsm.
Anytime a politician calls criticism of israel Anti-Semitic they should be charged with a hate crime.
4Equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is, itself, anti-Semitic
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America sowing Zionism: Yes…Ha Ha Ha…Yes!
America reaping Neonazism: This fucking sucks…
2It is fucking mind blowing with these people. Either the Holocaust happened or it didn't. Pick a fucking lane.
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1This is what happens when you blur the lines between news and 'storytelling.'
News is boring, unbiased, dry facts. Media wants to make you watch it. Media needs you to need it. Keep em scared. Keep them fragmented. Keep them stupid.
Small rant:
Americans aren't a single solitary mass of people... no more than any other group. Most of us are just on the train we were born on with about 0 say in where those tracks (and consequently momentum) is taking us.
Vote? You get to pick between two awful choices which need to moderate just enough to get some of the other guys votes. Both suck equally. Third party has 0 chance of winning. Neither matters because they are paid for by mega corp x and the religion of line-goes-up.
It pains me to say it but our best chance is in the next 10-15 years where most of these ancient fucking do nothing's in congress are relegated to nursing homes and obituaries. But that only helps a bit. During that time we need a proper failure of the banking and existing bubble markets to bring about a crash that will more or less make the great depression look like a joke. Change comes with unification. Unification comes when suffering outweighs bais.
We're not there yet.
20-30 years before we get the next 'experiment'
The wounds will be fresh enough to drive change and the damage will be sufficient enough to reinforce any positive movements.
...But for now we're just stuck on the tracks created by a generation that is bigger than us, watching their bubble economy implode, and being saddled with the debt that it bears. This is the death of an era and we're just along for the ride.
3Yup.
On another thought; Something I've been thinking a lot of the last couple years is that I feel it's intentional. I wish I could get it out of my head. But I feel like we've all been suckered into this false story of glory. It never was.
There's line in the movie Leave the World Behind that I really liked. It was talking about the Friends TV show.
"It's almost as if it's nostalgic for a time that never existed."
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