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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    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.

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      The statue is located in Merwedeplein, near the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

      The Gazans aren’t the ones doing the defacement.

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      It only takes 1% idiots to give enough anecdotal ammunition for the other side. It’s not the hard numbers that were ever in their favour anyway.

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        Exactly. Things like this happened many times in the past. And it could be that this was done by Zionists or Nazis to pin on pro-Palestinian activitists. Not saying that this is the case, but it is a possibility.

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          Yeah, but if you even mention false-flag conspiracies, you make it sound like you need them to have a point. We don’t, that’s just not what our larger movement is about regardless of who did it. There are Jews, like technically me, in it; it’s not anti-Jewish.

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        Do you apply this same standard to the January 6th morons, or do you conveniently use their actions to paint everyone on the right as fascists and lunatics?

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          The majority of Republicans, both voters and lawmakers, held the same beliefs as the rioters about the credibility of the election. I doubt the majority of people who are pro Palestine have much against Anne Frank, but you’re free to do some of your own polling.

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          Personally, I don’t think everyone on the (American) right are fascists and lunatics. It seems to be the dominant strain, but perhaps you can change my mind.

          What percentage or Republicans would you say support the efforts of January 6th? I seem to remember that polling says the majority believe Trump won the election.

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      Exactly.

      The news is portraying it like wow how could someone defile such a respectful thing

      It is to make the message clear I dunno Anne Frank but I doubt she’d be cool with bombing Palestinians

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        I doubt she’d be cool with bombing Palestinians

        i used to think any sane person would be; but i’m learning from this election cycle that they’re minimize it as being a “single issue voter.”

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        Hey! As an idiot, I resent that! I’m at least smarter than THAT!

        This is more the work of the morons.

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      These days, Gaza is probably safer and more comfortable than a typical Nazi death camp.

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            Death toll is one thing. You could be housed at a luxury hotel as a death row inmate.

            But the safety and living conditions is another thing.

            Kids are starving and ridden with septic diseases in Gaza as well, and everyone is slowly dying with nobody coming to help. On paper it seems pretty close IMO. Sadly.

            But who knows except those in the actual situation.

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    I can understand the anger at Israel. But of all people, Anne Frank has the least to do with all the genocide of Palestinians.

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    One angry kid with a spray bottle. That’s all it takes for this to happen. Let’s not be crazy about the implications perhaps?

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      I like how people are assuming if Anne Frank were alive she would be doing anything other than shouting to the world about ending the genocide in Gaza because genocides are the most terrible crime humanity can enact upon itself.

      A statue is just some rock you paid somebody to carve.

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      Nonsense, let’s drum it up into a big stupid story with actual geopolitical ramifications.

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        In Canada we don’t blame Palestinians for all the hate crimes against Jews

        We blame Canadians for trying to bring those issues over here