Pop artist Palombo decries 'cowardly' anti-Semitic vandalism

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 20 - Contemporary pop artist and activist aleXsandro Palombo has decried the "cowardly act of anti-Semitism" that left one of his two murals belonging to the series "Platform 21, the Simpsons deported to Auschwitz" vandalized with black paint on Tuesday, which was Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel.
    "This cowardly anti-Semitic act highlights the danger of indifference, oblivion and forces us into a visual stumbling block that reveals the reality, hatred, racism, cruelty and prejudice toward Jews," said Palombo, who painted the murals showing the Simpson family before and after deportation on the side of Milan's Holocaust Memorial on January 27, 2023.
    The vandals daubed black paint across the mural featuring the Simpsons in Auschwitz uniform, also covering their yellow Stars of David.
    "Any form of distortion of the Holocaust leads to denialand anti-Semitism because it casts doubt on the reality and atrocities of the Holocaust," added Palombo. (ANSA).