Sunday marks 80 years since Anne Frank's family was arrested by the Nazis on August 4, 1944.

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.worldMEnglish
    1906·
    4 months ago

    Ah yes, the notoriously pro-Israel Ann Frank. What with Israel existing before 1948.

    How the fuck does this help anything?

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      106·
      4 months ago

      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.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        83·
        4 months ago

        I think Israelis doing this is the least likely of the scenarios suggested, the others being bigots and Russian operatives.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          46·
          4 months ago

          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.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      506·
      4 months ago

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

      The Gazans aren’t the ones doing the defacement.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        4 months ago

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

        This is more the work of the morons.

    • DMBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish
      618·
      4 months ago

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

          • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
            54·
            4 months ago

            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.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    451·
    4 months ago

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

    • CluckN@lemmy.worldEnglish
      294·
      4 months ago

      It does help Israel with the, “Everyone who disagrees with our actions is antisemitic” angle.

      • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        164·
        4 months ago

        Yes. That is Israel’s only PR card only and they’ve been playing it over and over.

        As an actual pro-Palestine act of protest, this is pure idiocy. It is plainly antisemitic and there is no grounds to hold Anne Frank accountable for the state of Israel. If a pro-Palestine protestor did this then they are an absolute moron and a bigot.

        However. As a pro-Israel false flag, this is brilliant. It draws a tight connection between supporting Palestine and being anti-Semitic. It makes protestors look exactly like the bigots Israel wants them all to be.

        So given that someone just ran up and did this under cover of night, we’re left with a decision: was it done by someone incredibly stupid or very smart? There are plenty of both in the world.

  • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2513·
    4 months ago

    Hate begets hate, not calm and rational responses.

    If this changes your opinion on Gaza-Israel; you are a fucking moron.

    If Hamas’ fighters being hateful and commiting war crimes changes your opinion on the conflict; you are a fucking moron.

    If you think no hamas fighter is hateful and has committed atrocities; you are a naive moron.

    If you are wondering why Israel is wrong and Palestinians in the right despite both sides’ soldiers (and “soldiers”) committing war crimes, it’s because Israel created this situation by occupying Palestine and trying to ethnically cleanse it.

    People in the West are way naive and sheltered from the realities of war, in part due to propaganda and how western war efforts have been portrayed as unrealistically “clean” and sanitized.

    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      95·
      4 months ago

      Good take. Except maybe missing the part where the west is complicit in the suffering of palestinians, and where the Arab nations starting a war vs. Israel taught Israel to be aggressive preemptively. And this is not an excuse, just an (incomplete) analysis how this clusterfuck came about.

    • Pilferjinx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      152·
      4 months ago

      Whatever gave you that impression? I can’t see nazis being on the side of Israel. There’s probably complexity on views but defacing a concentration camp jew is missing the mark by a lot.

      • Floey@lemm.eeEnglish
        41·
        4 months ago

        Actually plenty of Nazis are pro Israel, it might even be the default position. Israel can be both a place to send Jewish people to get them out of your country and an example to hold up of successful ethno nationalism. On top of that Nazis would revel in the deaths of Palestinians, the bigotry of Nazis extends further than antisemitism.

    • MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.mlEnglish
      129·
      4 months ago

      I can’t help but think you’re being wilfully ignorant in a contrived attempt at making a nonsense point.

      • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        4 months ago

        You kids all talk the same. I can picture exactly what you look like. Don’t insist over and over that there’s no anti Semitism mixed into this protest, and then get mad and call people ignorant when they point at it for you. Fix that shit, expel those fucks from your protests, instead of bitching to me online. Do something about it. And if you’re not part of these protests and all you do for the cause is sit online and bitch, shut the fuck up. Cause you’re not part of any of this. My children under 12 have suffered anti Semitism recently for being proud to be half Jewish. And I’m out there with teachers and city councillors trying to make changes so these protest stay on point and don’t veer off into bullshit.

        What are you doing?

        • MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.mlEnglish
          11·
          4 months ago

          Why are you treating pro Palestinian people as a monolith? Learn to think critically and realize no protest can somehow rid itself of all shitty people. You’re being unreasonable and weirdly condescending because you’re older and somehow think it’s cool to talk down to folks based on age.

          Have I insisted there’s no anti-Semitism among the pro-Palestinian movement? No? Then why are you claiming I’ve insisted there’s no anti-Semitism? If I see or hear an anti-Semite in the pro-Palestinian, I would call that person/those people out, as I have in the past. Is that so hard to understand?

          Also very weird that you’re all “I can picture what you look like”. You’re being way too presumptuous and that’s why you feel so confidently incorrect.

        • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          11·
          4 months ago

          You sound like those people who were more upset about the riots and looting than the fact that police were killing unarmed men.

        • kaffiene@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          It’s clearly pro Palestinian. Whether it is antisemitic is an issue of perspective but I can see that I am on the minority here and I don’t really feel the need to convince you so Ill just accept that you disagree and leave it there

  • VintageTech@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    62·
    4 months ago

    If we’re talking about 1940’s Gaza, wouldn’t it have made more sense defacing an Egyptian statue?