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!
People 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.
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Antisemites can fuck off and die. We’ve got no room for this Nazi ass bullshit
nazi cunts fuck off
Israel 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.
Equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is, itself, anti-Semitic
For 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.
I hope they catch the racist Trump supporters responsible for this.
