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.
Calling it anti semitic is my definition making it racial, I didn’t do that.
That’s correct, it wasn’t an effective protest because it didn’t get the change he wanted but did put his word out there, right here today I could get that manifesto in less than 30 seconds.
I don’t think anyone is supporting violence like a bombing, this is literal paint. Calm down, they aren’t comparable at all.
It may not be the same as a bombing but the people whose minds they’re trying to change are only going to close further because they don’t want to be seen as supporting anti-semitism. Which when you’re defacing a jewish child’s statue seems like a not so far off stretch.
It’s not at all the same thing, you’re being bombastic about stupid shit.
Defacing a genocide victims statue to bring light to an active genocide committed by members of her religion, famously mass victims of genocide now commiting genocide.
You’re part of the problem, stop with the “protest the right way” bullshit.
So you think it’d be logical and a good move for trans civil rights activists to deface an mlk statue? Since apparently defacing victim monuments is your idea of a productive protest, why isn’t it happening?
Do you know remember last year or two when there was a rash of statue defacement that sparked meaningful conversation, you seen to just be I’ll informed based on your two weird comments.
You mean confederate statues? Or was an mlk statue defaced to fight police brutality and it slipped through my finders?
https://www.nprillinois.org/springfield-il/2024-06-18/vandalized-mlk-statue-in-springfield-to-return-soon
Multiple statues multiple vandalizations. Maybe read a newspaper.
https://www.mlk50.nl/50-statues/vandalism/
maybe you should provide relevant quotes to your links.
Bigots deface MLK statues.
Nazis deface Jewish things.
Genocide protestors paint genocide iconography.
You hear genocide you think Holocaust and and Frank.
Name a single better genocide symbol that would be a better target of vandalism to make a point.
And the people who did it were racist trying to be racist. Thanks for proving my point that at best it’s bad optics and damaging to their cause.
An edit just to laugh at the thought that you were thinking you had me only to post links to mlk statues being beheaded during black history month. You really think the people who did that were supporting blm?
Yes. Yes, they vandalized a statue of a relevant figure. Racism = MLK, police = George Floyd, colonialism = Columbus.
It’s not always the things they’re against that get vandalized, its what’s relevant and will be noticed.
And that’s how I can tell you took it at face value and didn’t actually read anymore on the subject.
Famous civil rights locations were vandalized and some burned down during civil rights protests… again, they do what gets attention which generally is what is annoying or controversial because literally no one cares if you chant outside Costco for 5 days.
Protest the right way.
^((at least try to.)^)
Hey thrown out the window the right way.
There are times and places.
Something tells me you adore Hugo boots Mr bot.
What would a bot want with boots?
Nazis boots 8 are presumably just as fashion forward as their Nazi creators.
used to deface a memorial to a victim of genocide.
To bring light to genocide.
Imagine for a second that Anne frank wasn’t a Jew just the most famous genocide victim of all time, would it then be ok to deface the statue being directly relevant to the reason for protest.
But she was Jewish. She was a Jewish victim of a genocide of jewish people. It is a very prominent opinion that those advocating for Palestinian liberation are promoting a genocide of jewish people.
Where in that graffiti do you see anti semitic anything.
As far as I’m aware red hands means there is blood on their hands and free Gaza means… I suppose this isn’t complicated but “free Gaza”.
You are adding anti semitism where there isn’t any.
Nazis deface these kind of things, so if such are defaced, it’s reasonable to suspect Nazis or those doping so to be sympathetic to Nazis.
Sure.
What’s your reasoning to think this was “Nazis”.
I’ll wait Mr bot.
They murdered Ann Frank.
How long did it take you to research that irrelevant fuckin point.
Who programmed your buggy ass?
Again, I can see the possible intent behind this. And I agree that it was most likely not done with the intention of coming across as anti Semitic. But that is how others see it. Read the news articles about it. Look at the comments people have left.
And blood on their hands? Them being what? Jewish people? Are you saying that all Jewish people bear responsibility for the crimes of the state of Israel?
No we know it wasn’t because there’s nothing anti semitic on it, nothing. Your implying something that doesn’t exist. Yes, the news makes money by sparking culture was bullshit and making mountains of molehills. Find me something the news doesn’t make seem like the end of the goddamn world and I’ll be more surprised.
Goddamn did you look at the picture? It’s describing the graffiti.
Ed: and I quote
“It looks like x or it looks like y”, you clearly haven’t even seen the graffiti but you’re off arguing about it.
How would it be relevant to the reason of the protest?
Oh Mr bot you’re not even making sense.