Images (on delfi.lt) of the neo-Nazi paint attack on the central Vilnius building of the Jewish Community of Lithuania on the night of 9-10 August 2008; additional image (photos by Milan Chersonski, editor of Jerusalem of Lithuania). There have been no arrests.
Symbology
Jewish Community Building Defaced by Swastikas and Star of David Hanging from Gallows
Posted in Antisemitism & Bias, Human Rights, News & Views, Swastikas in Lithuania, Symbology
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Legal Ban on Nazi and Soviet Symbols in the Spirit of Red-Brown ‘Equivalence by Law’, a Blow to Freedom of Speech
BBC report, ‘Lithuanian ban on Soviet symbols’. A legally imposed ‘equivalence’ of ‘Nazi and Soviet symbols’ came as a grave moral blow to elderly veterans of the war against Nazism, and their proud families (notwithstanding an addition to the law technically exempting veteran memorials).
Posted in Double Genocide: The New Form of Holocaust Revisionism & Denial, Free Speech & Democracy, News & Views, Politics of Memory, Symbology
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