A swastika was left on a wall of the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza in Philadelphia

A swastika was left on a wall of the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza in Philadelphia

A Holocaust memorial in Philadelphia has been vandalised with a swastika as acts of antisemitism continue to rise across the country.

The Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza said in a post that earlier this weekend, an unidentified figure vandalised a wall of the plaza, drawing a large swastika.

The memorial’s post described it as “a disgusting act of antisemitism that comes amid a staggering spike in anti-Jewish hatred across Philadelphia and the country more broadly”.

While the swastika graffiti has been removed from the wall, according to NBC, the organisation is asking anyone who may have any information about the vandalism to contact the Philadelphia Police Department.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      71·
      10 months ago

      I hate it. I’ve never been to Israel, I never want to go to Israel, I have no interest in supporting Israel. My mother’s family has been in the U.S. since at least the early 1900s, some of them at least a generation earlier. My father is an immigrant- from England. I was born and raised in Indiana. Yes, Israelis and I share an ethnic background. That’s pretty much it. I don’t even know any Hebrew. I cheated for my Bar Mitzvah. I have so much more in common with pretty much every American Muslim than I do any Israeli. In fact, and I realize this is totally anecdotal, but every Israeli I have met has been an arrogant prick. It doesn’t especially endear me to them.

      Good pickles though. Try Israeli pickles if you haven’t. You don’t have to get them from Israel, they’re easy to make.

      http://mangersansfrontieres.weebly.com/blog/israeli-pickles

      That’s the one thing I’ll give Israelis. Based on the Israeli restaurant that used to be near where I used to live, they have decent food. Except the desserts. Sesame halvah. Bleah.

      • thefartographer@lemm.ee
        31·
        10 months ago

        I’ve been to Israel multiple times, I can read Hebrew (with nearly no understanding of what I’m saying) and I didn’t cheat for my bar mitzvah.

        All that being said, I find most Israelis in the United States insufferable. In Israel, you’ll find far more people who are far more fun, but most of them in a semi-tolerable way. I’ve got a lot of Israeli family who I love and adore and recognize their flaws.

        Anyway, I feel that your assessment is skewed due to a small dataset, but if you expanded the dataset, you’d find that you weren’t really that far off…

        Except for the sesame halvah. You gotta find the right kind, and then it’s delicious. There’s no middle-ground, though.