And the hits just keep on coming…
Anti-Semitic vandals struck the Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki, Greece with a message to “Free Palestine.” Keep in mind, 50,000 Jews were murdered in the city during WWII, which is why there’s a memorial here in the first place:
Appalling: Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki, Greece desecrated with "Free Palestine" graffiti. 94% of the city's 50,000 Jews were murdered by the Nazis, virtually wiping out the Jewish community; today only about 1,000 Jews remain. pic.twitter.com/GuAtnDskfw
— Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) January 10, 2018
It’s not the first time this has happened:
Sadly this memorial has been vandalized before.
— Hayl to the "Bombastic Cyclone" Chief 🌊 (@HaylsBayls3) January 10, 2018
When will Europe wake up to its anti-Semitism problem?
When European Holocaust memorials are defiled with "pro-Palestine" graffiti, one has to ask: can "anti-Zionism" and antisemitism actually be separated from one another? (answer: of course not; the former is a form of the latter, as we see time and again) https://t.co/6hzMlRSbhN
— Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) January 10, 2018
Many Europeans, including the German court in Wuppertal and the German journalist Jakob @Augstein will chalk the below up to justifiable "Israel criticism" instead of modern antisemitism https://t.co/YziNiZMSKr
— Benjamin Weinthal (@BenWeinthal) January 10, 2018
My grandmother made it out in time. Nothing shows your anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic credentials, like targeting Holocaust memorials. https://t.co/PN0oIvtf9Q
— Jonathan Marks (@marksjo1) January 10, 2018
The graffiti comes amidst news that a new Holocaust museum will be built to honor the city’s Jewish history:
A new Holocaust Museum to be constructed in Thessaloniki. https://t.co/wooUdh9HYe pic.twitter.com/HAQLNRm4yS
— 🇮🇱Israel in UNESCO (@israelinunesco) January 8, 2018
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