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.
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