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.
People said that about MLK’s walks.
And if his walks included racist undertones those complaints would have been valid. Your rebuttal could be used against literally anything. The Oklahoma bombings were done in protest to Waco and other shit. You going to defend that protest because i think it was extremist and say it’s not the right way to protest? There’s a line and using MLK to justify crossing it is disgusting.
American white nationalists regularly insisted they did and claimed that they were being victimized by angry black mobs.
Subsequent efforts by Hoover’s FBI during the COINTELPRO operation aimed at black civil rights leaders attempted to stock those fears and legitimize them with fabricated evidence in support of the claim.
They aren’t credible.
Are you saying the person who did the defacing is an agent of the Israeli government?
In the 1950s and 60s, they were considered extremely credible.
No more than I am suggesting J. Edgar Hoover was Jewish.
I don’t think so.
or the Mossad infiltrated black groups in the US, I suppose. 😏
Shrug George Wallace was a governor for multiple terms. Strom Thurmond was a senator for decades. Nixon won the South on racism.
Black radical groups tended to align with Islam, particularly later into the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
George Wallace lost to Nixon in 1968.
What did Nixon say about MLK?
I know little about Thurmond, but what did the bigot from the small state of South Carolina say about MLK in the 1950s and 1960s?
I’m sure at times the Mossad infiltrated Islamic groups.
Yes that is my point. He wasn’t doing actual racist shit so they had to make stuff up. Genociders won’t have that problem here.
And large numbers of White Americans believed it, because they were primed to assume colored people were monsters.
Stocking the hate towards Arabs is a pivotal part of the war effort against Gaza.
And, in my opinion, spray painting “free gaza” on a statue depicting a jewish teenager who died in the holocaust is only going to help them have something to point at and say “see, we’re right”
If you look at a Holocaust victim’s memorial tagged with a condemnation of another Holocaust, and you think you yourself “Arab people deserve to be exterminated”…
Well they’re currently being exterminated for simply existing so ellipsis right back at ya
Calling it anti semitic is my definition making it racial, I didn’t do that.
That’s correct, it wasn’t an effective protest because it didn’t get the change he wanted but did put his word out there, right here today I could get that manifesto in less than 30 seconds.
I don’t think anyone is supporting violence like a bombing, this is literal paint. Calm down, they aren’t comparable at all.
used to deface a memorial to a victim of genocide.
To bring light to genocide.
Imagine for a second that Anne frank wasn’t a Jew just the most famous genocide victim of all time, would it then be ok to deface the statue being directly relevant to the reason for protest.
But she was Jewish. She was a Jewish victim of a genocide of jewish people. It is a very prominent opinion that those advocating for Palestinian liberation are promoting a genocide of jewish people.
Where in that graffiti do you see anti semitic anything.
As far as I’m aware red hands means there is blood on their hands and free Gaza means… I suppose this isn’t complicated but “free Gaza”.
You are adding anti semitism where there isn’t any.
Nazis deface these kind of things, so if such are defaced, it’s reasonable to suspect Nazis or those doping so to be sympathetic to Nazis.
Sure.
What’s your reasoning to think this was “Nazis”.
I’ll wait Mr bot.
Again, I can see the possible intent behind this. And I agree that it was most likely not done with the intention of coming across as anti Semitic. But that is how others see it. Read the news articles about it. Look at the comments people have left.
And blood on their hands? Them being what? Jewish people? Are you saying that all Jewish people bear responsibility for the crimes of the state of Israel?
No we know it wasn’t because there’s nothing anti semitic on it, nothing. Your implying something that doesn’t exist. Yes, the news makes money by sparking culture was bullshit and making mountains of molehills. Find me something the news doesn’t make seem like the end of the goddamn world and I’ll be more surprised.
Goddamn did you look at the picture? It’s describing the graffiti.
Ed: and I quote
“It looks like x or it looks like y”, you clearly haven’t even seen the graffiti but you’re off arguing about it.
How would it be relevant to the reason of the protest?
Oh Mr bot you’re not even making sense.
It may not be the same as a bombing but the people whose minds they’re trying to change are only going to close further because they don’t want to be seen as supporting anti-semitism. Which when you’re defacing a jewish child’s statue seems like a not so far off stretch.
It’s not at all the same thing, you’re being bombastic about stupid shit.
Defacing a genocide victims statue to bring light to an active genocide committed by members of her religion, famously mass victims of genocide now commiting genocide.
You’re part of the problem, stop with the “protest the right way” bullshit.
So you think it’d be logical and a good move for trans civil rights activists to deface an mlk statue? Since apparently defacing victim monuments is your idea of a productive protest, why isn’t it happening?
Do you know remember last year or two when there was a rash of statue defacement that sparked meaningful conversation, you seen to just be I’ll informed based on your two weird comments.
You mean confederate statues? Or was an mlk statue defaced to fight police brutality and it slipped through my finders?
https://www.nprillinois.org/springfield-il/2024-06-18/vandalized-mlk-statue-in-springfield-to-return-soon
Multiple statues multiple vandalizations. Maybe read a newspaper.
https://www.mlk50.nl/50-statues/vandalism/
Protest the right way.
^((at least try to.)^)
Hey thrown out the window the right way.
There are times and places.
Something tells me you adore Hugo boots Mr bot.
They did and they were wrong but his walks also did not bolster claims of anti semitism by defacing memorials to holocaust victims
It bolstered the concept of the “entitled ni**er” at the time, read a newspaper taking about it before it happened.
Please link us to articles and commentaries in such (supposed) newpapers.
I’ll look them up when I get home but your trying to get me to prove racist comments in 1964 and somehow think that’s a high bar to jump.
Either history escapes you or you are wildly ignorant.
Good luck, and try to make them major dailies. Rantings by, say, The KKK Times won’t count.
both.
You honestly think it’s going to be hard to find racism in a newspaper from 1964, you know sitting marches about racist shit in newspapers for instance.
Bold admission boss, seriously. Your creator has some work to do.
You have your work cut out.
I don’t envy you.
Many newspapers have paywalls and/or ads, and there’s a lot of crap on Google.
You act like libraries don’t exist.
And I mean that as you’re seemingly unaware you can look at old newspapers for free at your local library and also that you seem dumb enough to never have been at a library and honestly don’t know.