#swastikas

"What does a swastika mean?

The infamous symbol is inflammatory and inscrutable — it can be used to promote fascism and white supremacy, and to condemn it

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There is, of course, a tautology at play in the arguments from both Lipstadt and Sharansky: Comparing Israel to the Nazis is antisemitic because it is an outrageous exaggeration. But many of those who make these comparisons argue that there are legitimate parallels to draw between the two governments.

Jean Améry, a Jewish writer from Austria who survived the Holocaust, wrote about his great dismay with the European left’s turn against Israel and Zionism — including Nazi comparisons — but acknowledged disturbing similarities between rumors of Israeli soldiers torturing Palestinian prisoners and his own experience at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust, which he said tested his allegiance to the state. 'In my value system, for all that I have experienced the full horror of its concretization, the abstract category ‘human being’ outranks the concept ‘Jew,’' Améry wrote in 1977. 'When barbarism begins, even existential commitments must end.'

Yeshayahu Leibowitz, the brilliant Israeli scientist and public intellectual who escaped Europe for Mandate Palestine shortly before the Holocaust, called Israeli judges who allowed Arab prisoners to be tortured 'Judeo-Nazis' and warned that the entrenched occupation of the West Bank and Gaza coupled with rising ethno-nationalism among Israeli Jews was sending the country down the same road as Germany.

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The argument that Israel’s opponents are using the Holocaust in offensive ways to score cheap political points is weakened, somewhat, by the kneejerk insistence by many of the country’s supporters that Iran and Hamas are equivalent to the Nazis and that its Oct. 7 attack was an act of genocide. It seems that both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remain stuck in a framework where the Holocaust seems like the most potent point of reference.

Israeli philosopher Omri Boehm has lamented that the Israeli government is 'using the memory of the Holocaust to fight human rights' while, at the same time, the global left is dismissing Holocaust remembrance."

https://forward.com/news/antisemitism-decoded/826570/what-does-a-swastika-mean/

"Since #October7 and the war in #Gaza, #antisemitism has become more visible, aggressive and socially acceptable than at any point in my lifetime. #Synagogues require guards, #Jewish schools operate behind barriers, cemeteries are desecrated with #swastikas and slogans. #Protesters chant inflammatory threats while police officers advise #Jews not to be “visibly Jewish” or “provocative.” My late father, who helped defend #CableStreet against #fascists, would struggle to comprehend such passivity.

Meanwhile, ancient #conspiracy theories have been casually rehabilitated."

https://aish.com/the-time-for-hiding-is-over/

"#Swastikas and #Hitler #graffiti were spray-painted on a #synagogue, a #Jewish center, homes, and a vehicle in #NewYorkCity, by at least four people still at large.

Congregation #MachaneChodosh in #ForestHills was the synagogue that was spray-painted, which #Rabbi #YossiMendelson told the #NewYork Post on Monday was “very upsetting.”

"The rabbi who founded our synagogue was himself a #German refugee and dedicated the synagogue to the memory of the synagogues that were destroyed in #Germany and the #Jews who were murdered for being Jewish,” #Mendelson said."

https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/swastikas-hitler-graffiti-spray-painted-on-nyc-synagogue-homes-zohran-mamdani-kathy-hochul-hakeem-jeffries-jewish-nypd

Yeah, and #swastikas in #Queens: this #Israel-#Palestine conflict always brings out extremists.

https://time.com/article/2026/05/03/rise-of-antisemitism-in-the-uk-terrorist-incident-government-response/

#Chechen native and member of the #German far-right party (#AfD) Murad Dadaev, more commonly known as Noah #Krieger, has visited #Chechnya and gifted a senior Chechen official German daggers from World War II adorned with #swastikas, OC Media reported.

https://oc-media.org/german-afd-member-gifts-chechen-official-daggers-with-swastikas-in-grozny/

Something you'd see the #nazi do with their #swastikas , the beyond evil #israel #zionist have been doing for 80 plus years

#starofdavid #apartheid #genocide #warcrimes #idfterrorist

Israeli settlers carry out series of West Bank attacks as security forces stand by
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/22/israeli-settlers-carry-out-series-of-west-bank-attacks-as-security-forces-stand-by?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other