Posted on 06/14/2024 8:46:28 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
Vandals spattered the Jewish director of the Brooklyn Museum’s home with blood-red paint, hung a banner vilifying her as a “White-Supremacist Zionist” and also daubed an red inverted triangle on her windows.
That triangle inspired perhaps the most anxiety after the Tuesday night incident, which Mayor Eric Adams and others are calling an antisemitic hate crime.
“The mob painted an inverted red triangle on the door — the symbol used by terrorists to mark targets they want to take out,” tweeted a Jewish woman on X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter.
Horrifying vandalism and threats targeting the @brooklynmuseum director and several Jewish board members.
The mob painted an inverted red triangle on the door - the symbol used by terrorists to mark targets they want to take out.
Threatening and harassing American Jews is not… pic.twitter.com/KojPuPqx9B
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) June 12, 2024 She’s right, in that Hamas and other militant groups in the Middle East have used the symbol to show objects or people — mostly Israeli and Western — they have targeted.
A student walks holding a Palestinian flag during a demonstration May 24 in Santiago, Chile. Photo by Sebastián Vivallo Oñate/Agencia Makro/Getty Images But the symbol has also been used more generally, by those who want to signal support for Palestinian liberation. In that context, said Costanza Musu, a University of Ottawa professor who teaches a course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the triangle refers to part of the Palestinian flag. As such, she said, it’s used “generally speaking to symbolize resistance.”
She also noted that the Nazis used the symbol to identify people with political views unacceptable to them.
“But it’s a lot harder to say that it wasn’t intended as a way of identifying a target,” she continued, when it’s painted on a Jewish person’s house, far from a college protest where students are using a variety of symbols.
Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, also knows the upside-down triangle can mean different things to different people. But American Jews have every reason to recoil from it, she said.
“It’s important to understand how it’s being used, how we’ve seen it for years, especially in recent days, including spray painted onto the home of a Jewish person — it’s absolutely wrong, painful, scary, antisemitic.”
When it’s not targeting a specific person or home, Musu said the symbol can be compared to “from the river to the sea,” a slogan heard at many protests against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. For some it’s a call for the empowerment of Palestinians from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean. For others, it’s a call to eliminate Jews from that land — in other words, the destruction of Israel and even killing of Jews.
“All of this tells us,” Spitalnick said, “that no one is even speaking the same language.”
Police are still investigating the incident at the Brooklyn Museum director’s Brooklyn Heights home. Homes of three other Brooklyn Museum staff and trustees were also targeted Tuesday night. No arrests have yet been made.
The Nazis used a Red Triangle to mark Communists.
The democrat JINO’s created this Islamist Frankenstein monster and now they have to live with it.
Where are all those “Jews for Palestine” now?
Red triangles marked “political prisoners (Schutzhäftlinge – Sch.), in other words, those who were imprisoned on the basis of a “protective custody order” (Schutzhaftbefehl) issued by a state police post. The political prisoners in Auschwitz were...
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they never change at all
System of triangles
Red triangles marked “political prisoners (Schutzhäftlinge – Sch.), in other words, those who were imprisoned on the basis of a “protective custody order” (Schutzhaftbefehl) issued by a state police post. The political prisoners in Auschwitz were, above all, Poles.
Green triangles marked “criminal” prisoners (Berufsverbrecher - BV), imprisoned as a direct consequence of committing a forbidden act, or after release from prison in cases where the criminal police regarded the sentence imposed by the court as too lenient. Prisoners in this category were mostly Germans.
Black triangles marked “asocial” prisoners (Asoziale - Aso), imprisoned in theory for vagrancy or prostitution, but in fact for a wide range of other deeds or behaviors, loosely and arbitrarily interpreted by the police. The Roma in the Birkenau “Gypsy camp” were classified as asocial.
Purple triangles marked prisoners imprisoned for belonging to the Jehovah’s Witnesses (Internationale Bibelforscher-Vereinigung - IBV), regarded as enemies of the state because of their pacifistic beliefs.
Pink triangles marked homosexual prisoners, in practice exclusively German, who were imprisoned on the basis of §175 of the German criminal code.
And an inverted pink triangle to mark homosexuals.
Perhaps the ignorant graffiti "artists" are trying to split the difference...
In Olde America”, before the FBI had become a weaponized tool of the democrat party, I would have expected this agency to get involved in the protection of this Jewish-American citizen.
In “New America”, (post the Great Voter Fraud of 2020), the FBI may feign starting an investigation, but they will also interrogate this woman to ask if she is ‘doing anything’ to provoke this behavior from the Pro-Pal thugs.
Whoa! Thanks! Learned the finer points today!
i hope all Jews (and some clueless Christians) take full advantage of the 2nd Amendment before it is too late. the persecution is coming.
This Leftist antisemitism is so far out of control. Sickening to think that it is happening here without being harshly and quickly stopped.
Hamas is already here they have been for a while
How long have these board members been voting Democrat?
Hmmmm.
That pride flag, the one with triangles at on end, has some of those colors you listed.
Did they mean that when originally designed?
Probably not. Will they care?
bkmk
When do they start lynching Jews? Time to stand up to these animals.
It’s way past time to start shooting these savages.
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Good luck buying a gun in Brooklyn following NYC laws, let alone the consequences should one use said gun to protect one’s life.
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