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The statue commemorating Anne Frank, one of the most famous victims of the Holocaust, was defaced with pro-Palestinian graffiti for the second time on Sunday.

The statue is located in Merwedeplein, near the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

According to images published on X, the base of the statue was spray-painted with the slogan "Free Gaza" while the girl's hands were painted with the same red color, AFP reported.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 250 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes, the notoriously pro-Israel Ann Frank. What with Israel existing before 1948.

How the fuck does this help anything?

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 120 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Perhaps the GRU (Russian military intelligence) paid some petty criminals to do it, as they did with pro-Palestine graffiti on a Jewish cemetery in France a few months ago

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 67 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Could be. But it could just as easily be some stupid bigots taking advantage of a bad situation.

For example, I doubt this was Russians: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/us/cincinnati-jewish-cemeteries-vandalism/index.html

But I do look forward for a demand that Alfred Dreyfus be exhumed so we can conduct a Cadaver Synod and re-try him for Israeli genocide in Gaza.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

I do recall an instance where they paid someone to spray paint a swastika and "Azov" on some mosque in MI, back in the early days of the war.

So, they are active with these sorts of tactics in the US. But yes, this is all just speculation at this point.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I got banned from r/worldnews for suggesting same.

[–] FatTony@discuss.online 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is why lemmy deservers to remain underground.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I’ve been on Reddit for 17 years. One of the first things that drew me to it was that I found an appreciable number of people who actually gave a fuck about the Palestinians and had their eyes open about Israel. It varies by sub but in this case I found myself asking “what happened to this place?”

[–] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I was banned from that subreddit too! 😁🙂

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

They are ban happy. Weaksauce moderating if you ask me.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How the fuck does this help anything?

It helps conflate Palestinian opposition to the war in Gaza with German Fascism and the Holocaust. That's to the benefit of Israeli Zionists.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think Israelis doing this is the least likely of the scenarios suggested, the others being bigots and Russian operatives.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago

Israelis doing this

Plenty of possible culprits beyond the actual literal Israeli government. Could very well have been a troll with no political affiliation at all.

But the media coverage, the fixation on Palestinians as scary, violent, genocidal invaders, and the way this gets used to justify continued bombing in Gaza? That's 100% right wing media.