Video: Yad Vashem Defaced With Anti-Zionist And Pro-Nazi Graffiti
Yad Vashem Defaced With Anti-Zionist, Pro-Nazi Slogans
Shmarya Rosenberg
Pro-Nazi and anti-Zionist graffiti was spray-painted overnight on Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial.
According to the AP, Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev told Israeli Army Radio that anti-Zionist graffiti was painted on 10 different places on the memorial’s campus, including slogans that read, “Hitler, thank you for the Holocaust,” and, “Jews, wake up, the evil Zionist regime doesn’t protect us, it jeopardizes us.”
Asked if he thought haredim were to blame, Shallev said the slogans were written in excellent Hebrew handwriting and one was signed “world haredi Jewry.”
Most haredim are anti-Zionist, following a theology that believes that a Jewish state should not have been established before the Messiah comes. Some haredim – primarily those affiliated with the Mea Shearim-based Eidah Haredit umbrella group, like Satmar – are more extreme and believe that Zionists wanted the Holocaust to happen because the sympathy it would (and did) generate would have made Israel’s founding easier. They also believe Zionists purposely failed to rescue tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust and that they colluded with Hitler, even though no truly credible evidence exists for any of it.
Shmarya Rosenberg
Pro-Nazi and anti-Zionist graffiti was spray-painted overnight on Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial.
According to the AP, Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev told Israeli Army Radio that anti-Zionist graffiti was painted on 10 different places on the memorial’s campus, including slogans that read, “Hitler, thank you for the Holocaust,” and, “Jews, wake up, the evil Zionist regime doesn’t protect us, it jeopardizes us.”
Asked if he thought haredim were to blame, Shallev said the slogans were written in excellent Hebrew handwriting and one was signed “world haredi Jewry.”
Most haredim are anti-Zionist, following a theology that believes that a Jewish state should not have been established before the Messiah comes. Some haredim – primarily those affiliated with the Mea Shearim-based Eidah Haredit umbrella group, like Satmar – are more extreme and believe that Zionists wanted the Holocaust to happen because the sympathy it would (and did) generate would have made Israel’s founding easier. They also believe Zionists purposely failed to rescue tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust and that they colluded with Hitler, even though no truly credible evidence exists for any of it.
Update 10:30 am CDT – the Jeruslaem Post reports that Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben Ruby said the most likely culprits are "extremeist haredim."
The Post also reports that the area most heavily defaced was the Warsaw Ghetto courtyard, built to memorialize the tens of thousands of Jews who died their and those ghetto Jews who staged a heroic uprising against the Nazis:
The main courtyard of the museum, the Warsaw Ghetto courtyard, was covered with slogans that stretched more than two meters tall and five meters wide, encompassing entire walls surrounding the memorial statue in the front of the courtyard. The vandals most likely entered the museum campus from the Jerusalem forest, which surrounds the museum.
[Sources: AP, Ynet, Jerusalem Post.]
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