Rome: Jewish Shops Defaced With Swastikas

In a great display of anti-semitism, Jewish shops were defaced with swastikas.
Jewish shops across Rome were vandalized and defaced with swastikas in an apparent neo-fascist attack linked to fighting in the Middle East, officials said Wednesday.

Owners of about 20 shops in the center and outskirts of the Italian capital reached their workplace Tuesday morning to find door locks filled with glue, shutters nailed closed and swastikas defacing nearby walls, said Riccardo Pacifici, a spokesman for Rome's Jewish Community.
As I wrote last week, the world is upside down. This is a perfect example of that. In my lifetime, it's always been that the world rails against Israel when Israelis respond to an act of war. This is the first time that they've responded where there wasn't an outpouring of outrage. There have been some comments expressing that perspective this time but not nearly as many as in the past.

The people that would paint swastikas on Jewish shops are themselves hate-filled people who should be sternly chastised and punished. PERIOD. Painting swastikas on the doors of Jews is as morally repulsive as it would've been to paint a KKK cross on a black businessman's shop door. A healthy society should react with outrage over such acts. Let's hope that happens in this instance.
Flyers signed by a group calling itself Armed Revolutionary Fascists were left at the shops denouncing "the Zionist economy" and including pro-Hizbullah slogans, Pacifici said. "There are still anti-Semites in Italy," Pacifici said. He told The AP that Italian Jewish organizations have been flooded with dozens of e-mails blaming Jews for violence in the Middle East.
Let's hope that Rome's police department apprehend and convict the hatemongers who did this soon. Let's hope that if they're caught and convicted, that they'll be sent away for a very long time.



Posted Thursday, August 3, 2006 1:45 AM

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