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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    And if his walks included racist undertones those complaints would have been valid.

    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.

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      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.

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        He wasn’t doing actual racist shit so they had to make stuff up.

        And large numbers of White Americans believed it, because they were primed to assume colored people were monsters.

        Genociders won’t have that problem here.

        Stocking the hate towards Arabs is a pivotal part of the war effort against Gaza.

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          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”

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            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”…

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              Well they’re currently being exterminated for simply existing so ellipsis right back at ya

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      American white nationalists regularly insisted they did and claimed that they were being victimized by angry black mobs.

      They aren’t credible.

      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.

      Are you saying the person who did the defacing is an agent of the Israeli government?

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        They aren’t credible.

        In the 1950s and 60s, they were considered extremely credible.

        Are you saying the person who did the defacing is an agent of the Israeli government?

        No more than I am suggesting J. Edgar Hoover was Jewish.

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          In the 1950s and 60s, they were considered extremely credible.

          I don’t think so.

          No more than I am suggesting J. Edgar Hoover was Jewish.

          or the Mossad infiltrated black groups in the US, I suppose. 😏

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            I don’t think so.

            Shrug George Wallace was a governor for multiple terms. Strom Thurmond was a senator for decades. Nixon won the South on racism.

            Mossad infiltrated black groups in the US

            Black radical groups tended to align with Islam, particularly later into the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

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              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.