[ April 19, 2024 ]
This is one more result of the left’s norming of Jew-hatred. While Islamic supremacists and their left elite media lapdogs pimp the islamophobia narrative, reality is far different. Jewish Americans have been the victim of the majority of religiously motivated hate crimes continuously since 1996, the earliest year for which the FBI has reported statistics. The number of hate crimes targeting Jews have increased year-on-year for the past two years. 2015 saw a 9 percent increase over the preceding year, and 2016’s 20 percent bump confirms this change in trend. Anti-Jewish bias continued to lead in hate crime offenses, accounting for 54.4 percent of cases. Why is all this happening? Because the Democrat Party and the leftist enemedia have made Jew-hatred fashionable.
“LA Mayor’s Office: Downtown Mural ‘Shameful Act of Anti-Semitism,’” by Aaron Bandler, Jewish Journal, February 26, 2019 (thanks to Mark):
A mural in downtown Los Angeles is a “shameful act of anti-Semitism,” according to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s office.
Story continues below advertisementThe Journal’s Ryan Torok previously reported, that the mural on Vortex, the multi-use community center, depicts a grim reaper adorned in an American flag with Jewish Stars of David holding a dead baby and cradling a missile.
The image went viral on social media on Feb. 25.
In a statement to the Journal, Alex Comisar, the press secretary for Garcetti’s office, said, “This mural is a shameful act of anti-Semitism. Imagery like this should have no place in our city.”
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)’s Los Angeles chapter called for the mural to be taken down. “For a venue that purports to welcome the community, the Vortex should join us in condemning hateful imagery that invokes anti-Semitic canards conflating Jews with death, snakes, bombs and killing babies,” ADL LA tweeted.
Simon Wiesenthal Center Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper told the Journal the mural is “straight out of Der Sturmer,” (the anti-Semitic tabloid that published Nazi propaganda from the 1920s to the end of World War II).
“It depicts Israel as a devil taking in a vortex of babies, obviously meaning attacking innocents,” Cooper said. “You think about what the message is, it’s real simple: if Zionists, Israel, are the devil, and they’re killing innocent babies and spreading war and terror, what do you against such people? You take them out.”
Cooper called for the mural to be taken down. “How dare [the Vortex] allow this kind of activity on a public street in the city that’s home to the second largest Jewish community in the world?” Cooper said. “It’s an absolute outrage.”
Roz Rothstein, CEO and co-founder of StandWithUs, said in a statement, “There must be no place for imagery promoting blood libels and racist conspiracy theories about Jews or any other group for that matter.”
Jeff Norman, a representative for The Vortex, told Torok in an email that the mural was painted as part of the “the LA vs. WAR show to acknowledge 9/11 about 5-6 years ago.” Norman added that the mural was an example of “free expression” and the artist “did not intend to express an anti-Semitic message.”
“We believe his intent deserves considerable weight. We invite those who feel otherwise to paint another mural next to it,” Norman said. “We are also open to hosting a public discussion about this controversy at The Vortex.”
Cooper said in a statement, “Spare us the artistic freedom mantra – Vortex would never allow the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) or Nazis access to their facility.”
A Los Angeles artist known as Vyal Reyes appeared to take credit for the mural on his Instagram account in January 2018, when he wrote, “Same as it ever was….. #tbt A piece influenced by my trip to Palestine some years back, still running … #tbt#whocontrolsamerica #peopleoverprofit”
Screenshot from Instagram.
He also set the mural as his Facebook profile picture in July 2014:
Screenshot from Facebook….
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42 Comments
5 years ago
Woukd they allow a JEwish artist to rebut this guy. Say have illegal immigrants portrayed as cockaroaches infesting and 8nvading America. Then have the artist claim “it is just self expression of the state of the world.”
5 years ago
Reply to
Glen Benjamin
Funny how “self expression” works. I’d love to see a mural depicting
Islam in a less than admirable way, but of course, that would never be permitted.
5 years ago
Reply to
caliroxanne
Ditto- How about a Muslim grime reaper holding a severed head in 1 hand while rapping a 9 year old in the other with an ISIS flag, Hamas flag, Hezbollah flag, Palestinian flag etc.
5 years ago
Not only anti-Semitic but anti-American. Can’t the idiots see how this seems to most Americans?
5 years ago
Reply to
fred m
They do not care how it seems to most Americans. They believe we don’t matter.
5 years ago
Artist name is “vyal” , how appropriate. Should be spelled vile, describing him and his handiwork.
5 years ago
Good one !
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Left out “no airplanes” and “no cars”. Dey be getting crazier by the day.
5 years ago
“After fleeing Nazi Germany as a child, Salomea Genin returned to the land of her birth to live
in East Berlin, expecting a utopia free of anti-Semitism – an illusion that would soon shatter.”
http://www.exberliner.com/features/people/a-jew-in-the-gdr/
5 years ago
Doncha love how supposed ‘hate crimes’ against Jews are physical violence and murder, but against mozlems it’s pulling a hijab off or draping bacon over a mosque door handle? Meanwhile they’ve committed almost 30,000 violent islamic jihad terror attacks since 911!
5 years ago
Reply to
caliroxanne
Could readily be “supposed” to all “hate crimes”. What makes a physical assault any worse than it actually is? There are crimes against murder. There’s no need to add “hate crime” to the charge. If a citizen of European descent is murdered by a member of the Black Supremacist group, BLM it’s murder. If a citizen of African descent is murdered by a person of European descent, it’s a “hate crime” murder. Both are murders … why should there be an added “hate crime”? Murder is murder.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
socialist`s need racism. using the “hate crime” label, promotes the growth of racism among the public school educated of to-day.
5 years ago
Reply to
caliroxanne
Whoops, I meant supposed ‘hate crimes’ as the majority! The ones against Jews have been mostly real.
5 years ago
Some 13,000 rockets have been unilaterally fired by the muslum vermin in Gaza (i.e. without any provocation or cause aside from Israel existing) from 2001 to 2014. How many rockets have been fired by the f’ing muslums into Israel since 2014? I know it’s a non-zero number.
5 years ago
Dead baby? I thought it was an astronaut and couldn’t make out the krap message.
5 years ago
6 years ago and they have only just noticed? Far from remembering 9/11 it seem to blame Israel and USA for it
5 years ago
Jews bring it on themselves!! Look @ SCHUMCH SCHUMER!!!!!
5 years ago
Reply to
william couch
Schumer is only about the money. He would sell his mother if someone would have bought her
5 years ago
Reply to
william couch
Schumer is only about the money. He would sell his mother if someone would have bought her
5 years ago
Well I can only wonder how many Jews will leave the Democrat Party because of this – if any. So far the high profile Jews, Diane Feinstein and Chuck Schumer, Rham Emanuel, Bernie Sanders, are still there; and I have not heard a word of condemnation from them.
5 years ago
A few cans of black spray paint would cure the problem. Nazis blamed Jews for losing World War one, for their economy, and every thing else that was bad in the country. Just think of the lives the Pals could have if they quit all their violence against Israel. The Pals claim they are occupied, the only reason for Israel being there is to stop the attacks coming from that area, anytime Israel gives back the area, the attacks start again. The Pals are their own worst enemy.
5 years ago
Thid is shameful, but a can of spray paint could cure this. We can’t stop hate, but we can mitigate its sting. It must be fought every time it appears, until it appears no more.
5 years ago
Pamela Geller is an extremist of the first order. She defends terrorism by the Israeli Occupation Forces while glorifying her apartheid state AKA Israel. Palestinians to her are non persons who deserve living under permanent military occupation. She espouses the “new and improved” definition of antisemitism that includes any and all criticism of the Israeli government and its brutal policies. Designed of course to silence free speech here in the US and elsewhere. I pray someday she learns the meaning of Judaism, the faith she apparently no longer practices in favor of the violent Cult of Zionism.
5 years ago
Reply to
Peter Michael Beck
LOL!
You are a Muslim terrorist supporter who defends squatters on land that never belonged to them.
These lazy parasites are claiming to be “refugees” since 1948. They live in filth. They are lazy and dumb and very ENVIOUS of Jews and Israel. What they should do is return to their ethnic homeland where they belong.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Felix, you and your Zionist hero Pamela Geller are so blinded by hatred that you don’t even know who the terrorists are. You approve heartily of Israeli snipers shooting thousands of unarmed demonstrators for sport. You applaud the rampaging Israeli settlers who attack farmers and destroy their fields, their olive trees. You probably even think that is funny. Israel and its groveling sycophants in Congress are a far greater threat to world peace than any other group on earth. If Israel disappeared tomorrow, the world would be far better off and much more peaceful. Americans who pledge their allegiance to Israel need to move there. Go wallow in your Zionist stew of racist hatred!
5 years ago
Reply to
Peter Michael Beck
Lies, lies and more lies! Your propaganda won’t cut it on here! Why don’t you mention the Palestinian terrorists? I guess that’s just fine and dandy with you. They raise their children to hate Jews from the minute they can walk and talk. Totally despicable! ????????????????
5 years ago
Reply to
Peter Michael Beck
So, you don’t agree the mural is shameful? And should be taken down?
5 years ago
Reply to
Peter Michael Beck
Take that BS somewhere else! Palestinians are the ones who don’t want a two state solution. They want Israel gone period and you know it!
5 years ago
The mayor should order it sand blasted off.
5 years ago
HORRIBLE beyond words.
Satan is on the march!
5 years ago
Looks like the DNC has just found it’s 2020 Banner to hang it’s hat on !!
5 years ago
The 2016 United States presidential election in California of November 8, 2016 was won by Democrat Hillary Clinton with a 61.7% majority of the popular vote over Republican Donald Trump. California’s 55 electoral votes were assigned to Clinton.
5 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Ya but I wonder how many fraudulent votes were counted. California has an enormous amount of illegals and I’d bet my life that many of them vote. That is along with dead people and people voting more than once in different counties just to name a few. Anyway if Democrats can figure out a way to cheat they will! You can bet on it!
5 years ago
I have heard of a similar mural inside the airport in Denver, Colorado. Not sure if it is still there but I saw a photo of it and it too was bad in a different way… and very telling of ‘their’ plans against Christians and Jews.
5 years ago
The democratic party is now the commie islamofacist nwo globalist Soros funded traitorous sedationests working all together to turn usa into 3rd world shithole. Vote them out no matter what they promise. It will never happen.
5 years ago
within the next 25 years real Jews will be leaving the States in droves. the fake and illegitimate Jews will need a bit more convincing….
5 years ago
It’s also anti-US, stars and Jewish star are both on what appears to be an American flag.
