Chairman of Yad Vashem's Response to Graffiti Discovered at Yad Vashem
Hateful graffiti in the open campus of Yad Vashem, scrawled across the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto Square monument
Hateful graffiti in the open campus of Yad Vashem, scrawled across the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto Square monument
Hateful graffiti in the open campus of Yad Vashem
11 June 2012
Early this morning, ten pieces of hateful graffiti in Hebrew were discovered in the open campus of Yad Vashem, a large part scrawled across the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto Square monument.
“This is a difficult and painful day for me and the staff of Yad Vashem. I am shocked and stunned by this callous expression of burning hatred against Zionists and Zionism. This is a worrying act that crosses a red line and is an offense to the memory of the Holocaust. I have reported it to the Minister of Education Gideon Sa’ar, who also expressed his bewilderment. I also spoke to Yad Vashem Council Chairman Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, who joined me in expressing his concern over this grave deed.”
Avner Shalev, Chairman of Yad Vashem
The particularly disturbing slurs included poisonous attacks on Zionism. The main motif was that Zionism caused the Holocaust, for example: “The Zionists wanted the Holocaust!” “Persecuting Jews! You declared war on Hitler in the name of the Jewish people. You brought about the Shoah! “If Hitler hadn’t existed, the Zionists would have invented him.”
The police are investigating.
