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.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    3 months ago

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

    How the fuck does this help anything?

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      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

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          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.

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            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?”

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      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.

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

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          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.