(Jewish Group) Defaced Milan mural of Holocaust survivors has been removed

[Behind the Aegis]

Italian artist and activist aleXsandro Palombo painted a mural of Italian senate member Liliana Segre and author Sami Modiano, both survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau in the extermination camp’s striped uniform with bullet proof jackets featuring the yellow star of David that Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis.

He unveiled the artwork in September, ahead of the anniversary of the October 7 Hamas terror attacks that sparked the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza.

Situated in Milan’s Piazzale Loreto, the mural was vandalised on 11 November. The faces and yellow stars of the mural have now been scratched off of the mural.

Palombo confirmed this week that the mural has been removed. He said he was “profoundly embarrassed” by the removal and called it an “an offense after the offense, the best way to hide anti-Semitism at a time when anti-Semitism is spreading and someone has also decided to deny honorary citizenship to a woman who survived the Holocaust”.

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[Lunabell]

1. I wish people could divorce themselves

from hating people who are Jewish and the Israeli government's actions. I have many wonderful American Jewish friends who hate what bibi and the Israeli government is doing. Nobody deserves hate for their religious beliefs. Just for their actions. The same goes for Muslim folks.

[Richard D]

2. I too hate what Netanyahu is doing...

... And I recognize that he is doing what must be done to protect the people of Israel from destruction at the hands of Islamists.

[Richard D]

3. What I have repeatedly seen, literally everywhere I've looked . . .

. . . is a near universal hatred for Netanyahu and what he has done. What I have also seen is that no one has a better or even different idea of what he should have or could have done that would not have led to repeats of Oct 7 and far worse. I realize that this is an unpopular opinion, but I reserve the right to have such opinions.

[Lunabell]

4. October 7th was abhorrent.

To hit civilians and innocent party goers was just sick. These poor people are not military. I just can't...

And for the life of me I do not understand the hatred of Jewish people. What bullshit is that whole "Jews run a secret financial rule the world banking system." WTF? I know some conspiracy theories may be true, but that one is absurd. There is no secret cabal of Rothschilds ruling us. If anything, it's right wing white nazi assholes.

I worked at a Jewish deli as a teen. Such a wonderful place to work. I love the culture and the Zagers were so good to all of their employees. I even dallied at converting at one point because the history was so compelling to me. But, basically I'm an atheist in my older years.