A man who lives across the street from a Des Moines, Iowa elementary school is defending his decision to display artwork with Confederate and Nazi imagery, the Associated Press reported Monday. William Stark had been harshly criticized by local parents and the school district for showcasing the painted wooden pallets stacked on his property. In…
In 1905, the writer Sholem Aleichem fled his native Ukraine after witnessing a brutal pogrom in Kiev. In 1997, that city erected a monument to him. He eventually found his way to America, but he wrote of his homeland for the rest of his life. And this past weekend, unknown vandals painted bright red swastikas…
The Amazon Prime series “The Man in the High Castle” had a rocky start when it came to Nazi imagery. In 2015, the show, set in an alternate universe in which the Axis won World War II and split the United States between Japanese and German control, was the subject of early outrage. The cause…
Multiple turtles were seen this week with swastikas painted on their shells in a park in the southern Seattle metropolitan area. So far, efforts to capture the turtles so their shells can be cleaned and they can be given a health check-up have been unsuccessful, according to local news outlets. “We made an attempt to…
BOSTON (JTA) — Smith College in Massachusetts was vandalized with a rash of swastikas. Local police have joined the investigation into the incident at the prestigious all-women school in Northhampton, about 100 miles west of Boston. Students reported finding at least one swastika on a wall in an academic building on Thursday. Police then searched…
(JTA) — A former student of a San Francisco-area high school was arrested in connection with the painting of graffiti including swastikas on the walls of the school building. Logan Stone, 20, who attended Burlingame High School, was taken into police custody on Thursday afternoon after police received a warrant to search his home, according…
BOSTON (JTA) — – An Israeli flag defaced with a swastika and white supremacist symbols was found on the grounds of a Cape Cod synagogue hours after the end of Yom Kippur. Police are investigating the incident at Falmouth Jewish Congregation after being notified by the synagogue’s rabbi, Elias Lieberman, who found the flag on…
A woman in Germany was fined earlier this month for painting over neo-Nazi graffiti, after a court concluded that her actions constituted property damage, the Telegraph reported. Irmela Mensah-Schramm, a 74-year-old activist known as the “Graffiti Grandma,” has for decades painted over white nationalist slogans and symbols throughout Germany. But after she painted hearts over…
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