In an act of vandalism believed to have been perpetrated by Dutch pro-Hamas militants, a statue of Holocaust victim Anne Frank in Amsterdam was scrawled with the word “Gaza” in red paint on Tuesday afternoon.
The defacement of the statue of Frank was first flagged up by Sidi, a Dutch pro-Israel group, a German-born Jewish girl who was murdered in the Holocaust and kept a diary about her life in Nazi-occupied Holland. Telegraph Reports.
“And ‘anti-Zionism,'” the group said. I have written X: “The Anne Frank statue in Amsterdam’s Merwedeplein, where the Jewish diarist lived before going into hiding in 1942, has been defaced with red paint and the word ‘Gaza’ written on it. This has been reported to the police.”
“It is truly shameful that anyone would think of drawing attention to the Palestinian cause by desecrating the portrait of Anne Frank, an international symbol of the Holocaust,” said Steen Nijssen, an Amsterdam city councillor from the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
Vandals have covered the Anne Frank statue in Merwede Square by the River Revere with the text “Gaza”.
The work depicts those who attempt to portray the painting of Anne Frank, an international symbol of the Holocaust, as Palestinian, and those who provoke such actions. pic.twitter.com/LYiwlSdoUR
— Stijn Nijssen (@StijnNijssen) July 9, 2024
Similarly, the Maagdenhuis building at the University of Amsterdam Destroyed A school building in the Dutch capital was painted red over the weekend in protest over its ties to Israel, with similar incidents occurring at businesses across the Dutch capital.
Other Holocaust memorials, such as the Stolpersteine Stumbling Stones in the Netherlands, have also faced vandalism by pro-Palestinian militants following the October 7 terror attacks on Israel.
Meanwhile, Germany’s Berlin state parliament has introduced a ban on the symbol, a red inverted triangle, because it is used by Hamas and other Islamists to mark targets of alleged Jewish enemies. Telegraph Reports.
The red triangle was originally used in Nazi concentration camps to designate communists, but Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups have also adopted and used the symbol from the Palestinian flag as a way to designate enemy targets.
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