SWASTIKAS REACTION TO OCT-7 ARAB FASCIST MASSACRES
Bates reports antisemitic graffiti on its campus.
The Boston Globe.
Oct 13, 2023
Bates College president Garry Jenkins said Friday afternoon that "antisemitic and hateful graffiti" was discovered inside a residence hall on the Lewiston, Maine, campus on Thursday, five days after Hamas militants launched a brutal surprise attack on Israeli citizens.
Jenkins said in an email to students, faculty, and staff that the graffiti, which is being investigated by the campus's safety department, included a swastika drawn in a bathroom stall. "Let me say now, unequivocally, that this act and symbol of antisemitism is abhorrent and unacceptable,” Jenkins wrote. "I am especially disheartened that this would occur directly on the hills of this weekend's atrocious attacks on Israel."
The antisemitic incident is the latest sign of growing tensions on college campuses across the country, as student groups clash over polarized political views about the ongoing war in Israel and Gaza.
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Anti-Semitic Swastika graffitied on seat of tube after Hamas terror attack on Israel.
12 October 2023
A swastika on the Northern Line London.
(A swastika on the Northern Line London Underground tube
Image: Contributor)
A swastika has been pictured graffitied on the seat of a tube train in London amid the ongoing conflict in Israel and the border of Gaza.
The swastika, which was used as a symbol of Nazism, was graffitied on the seat of a Northern Line Underground train.
Police believe the graffiti was created on Wednesday, October 10.
A swastika has been pictured graffitied on the seat of a tube in London amid the ongoing conflict in Israel and the border of Gaza.
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After Hamas attack, swastikas surface in US cities.
Swastikas in NYC and Irvine; anti-Semitic trolls upend meetings: This week in extremism.
Will Carless,
USA TODAY, Oct. 13, 3023
Online hate has surged in the days since Hamas launched brutal terrorist attacks against Israel, and social media companies are once again under fire for failing to quell the chaos. Meanwhile, swastikas are on display in New York and California, and hate speech invades Bay Area city council meetings.
It’s the week in extremism.
Smoke plumes billow during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on October 12, 2023 as raging battles between Israel and the Hamas movement continue for the sixth consecutive day. Thousands of people, both Israeli and Palestinians have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip, entered southern Israel in a surprise attack leading Israel to declare war on Hamas in Gaza on October 8.
Hate speech surging online since Hamas attack
Hateful and extremist speech on social media platforms has surged in the days since Hamas launched its brutal terrorist attacks on Israel on Saturday, USA TODAY reported Wednesday. In response, civil rights organizations are calling on tech companies to get much better at enforcing their terms of service and quelling hateful content.
Organizations who monitor hate speech online registered a significant surge in such content since Saturday’s invasion. The posts primarily target the Jewish population and Israel, but an organization that monitors anti-Palestinian hate has also seen increases.
The large tech companies who run the major social media platforms appear overwhelmed by what is happening. But they have also worsened the situation by laying off hundreds, if not thousands, of trust and safety employees, experts said. This has created an environment where hate speech and disinformation is thriving.
“Social media platforms are putting the burden of monitoring hate speech, incitement and violent speech on civil society organizations with limited resources and this is not OK,” said Mona Shtaya, a nonresident fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy.
Swastikas waved in NYC, California
The conflict in Gaza has brought out American anti-Semites. In addition to the online hate, there have been at least two incidents of people displaying swastika flags in the last week, at either end of the country.
In Times Square, New York City, a protester held up a phone displaying an image of a Nazi swastika on Sunday drawing condemnation from the Anti-Defamation League, which reported on the rally: “Rally-goers cast Zionists as fascists and bigots and referred to Zionists as ‘colonizers’ who should be removed from American cities.”
In Irvine, California, a man was seen waving a large swastika flag on a freeway overpass on Tuesday. Multiple witnesses posted about the sighting on social media.
The swastikas were just one facet of protests around the country with anti-Semitic themes, according to the ADL.
Hate speech in California city council meetings.
Several California cities have had to pause or cancel remote public comment sessions in recent days and weeks after meetings were hijacked by trolls shouting racist or anti-Semitic slurs.
In the week after Hamas terror attacks in Israel, hate and anti-Semitism reared up online and accross the U.S.
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