One of the flytilla 'activists,' who was held at Ben Gurion Airport before being deported back to his/her home country, left a little artwork on the wall.
A swastika was found drawn on the wall of a holding facility for illegal aliens at Ben Gurion Airport, where several foreign pro-Palestinian activists who arrived in Israel as part of the "Welcome to Palestine" fly-in protest were held.
The activist responsible for the drawing was deported back to his country of origin on Monday. "This was the gift the 'peace activists' left Israel," a source at the Immigration Authority said.
The swastica was discovered by the detention facility employees after two foreign activists – citizens of France and Spain - were removed from the building.
The Immigration Authority said that a photograph of the defiled holding facility wall will be distributed to foreign media by the Foreign Ministry.
If we know who did it, why are we protecting their identity? Let's put a face on this Nazi! The article implies that it's a French or Spanish national. Is that true? If not, what nationality is the person who did it, and why aren't we protesting to their government?
It's nice to show this to the foreign media, but we also should be telling them who did it. Every time an Israeli allegedly commits a crime abroad, it's all over the international media. Why not put the shoe on the other foot when we can?
Egyptians outside Israeli embassy in Cairo: The gas chambers are ready
Here's video from a clip on al-Jazeera in Qatar of a demonstration in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo on Monday. The clip has not been completely translated, but the swastika has a sign on it in Arabic that is translated that says, "the gas chambers are ready."
Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Atlas Shrugs).
Sunday night and Monday are Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel. While I have some beefs with the manner in which the date was picked, there is no doubt that remembering the Holocaust today is aseven more important than was the case fifty years ago. Lisa Graas has a feature from the United States Holocaust Museum about remembering the Holocaust here.
Unfortunately, one place where Holocaust remembrance is an absolute necessity is in Germany. The lovely graphic at the top of this post came from the web site of a German political party known as the Left party in the town of Duisburg in North Rhine, Westphalia. The name Duisburg may ring a bell for some of my longtime readers - that's the town where, in 2009, German police broke into a private home to remove an Israeli flag from a window, while an anti-Semitic mob jeered outside. Video of that incident is here.
The Left party in Duisburg had the lovely graphic at the top of this post on its web site until an internet web site called Ruhrbarone noticed it on Wednesday. The graphic is a swastika morphing into a Star of David and calls for - you guessed it - a boycott of Israeli products.
The Left Party in Duisburg is a hotbed of anti-Semitism,” Ruhrbarone wrote.
The flyer states, “Confront the moral blackmail of the so-called Holocaust,” and terms Israel a “rogue state” and “warmonger.” After Ruhrbarone reported about the flyer, the party branch removed it from its website.
A Ruhrbarone writer filed a complaint with Duisburg police asserting that the flyer violated Germany’s anti-hate laws. It may have been on the website for many years.
“The content and style of the flyer that is posted is clearly anti-Semitic, disgusting,” Petra Pau, a Left Party MP and vice president of the party in Bundestag, wrote on Thursday in response to an email query from The Jerusalem Post.
Pau traveled to Israel in 2008 to speak at an international conference of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism.
When asked if Left Party legislators agreed with the flyer, she told the Post that “because I am at this time not in Berlin, I cannot speak for the Left Party in the Bundestag.
Personally, I am angry and convinced that the party leadership will clarify the matter.”
Ruhrbarone criticized the Green Party and the Social Democrats for forming a coalition with the Left Party on the Duisburg City Council.
The new Jewish cemetery in Riga was desecrated with swastikas on Monday night.
Vandals overnight have desecrated over 100 gravestones in New Jewish Cemetery on Lizuma Street in Riga. White swastikas were painted on them, writes LETA.
A cemetery security guard noticed the tainted gravestones this morning, and notified the police.
The State Police and the Riga City Council were informed immediately.
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This same cemetery was desecrated in September of 2003, and the guilty parties received suspended sentences in 2005.
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