Graffiti is ‘classic anti-Zionist haredi rhetoric’
Jerusalem Post Monday 11th June, 2012
slogans spray-painted at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial have led the police to believe that ultra- Orthodox extremists are behind the vandalism perpetrated Sunday night.Below one of the slogans spray-painted at the site, the vandals signed off in the name of "World Haredi Jewry."The content of the graffiti, including conspiracy theories about Zionist collaboration with the Nazis, is also consistent with the beliefs of some radical anti-Z...
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