Germany. – A 97-year-old Holocaust survivor was overwhelmed by anti-Semitic hatred on social media amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including publications praising Hitler, her family said. Lily Ebert, originally from Bonyhad, Hungary, who was deported to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in 1944, operates a TikTok account to answer questions about the Holocaust.
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But she has been inundated with vile messages praising Hitler on Saturday, her great-grandson said.
We will not allow this to prevent us from educating about the horror of the past and what hate can lead to, Dov Forman tweeted on May 16. “Hate only begets hatred.”
Read more: Insects that have unreleased emergency calls in a US city are not the only ones in the world to have a problem. Some of the repulsive answers, according to a screenshot, included, “Can you ask him if Israel existed when [se mudó] outside Germany?” and “Ask him if he thinks the treatment of the Palestinians reminds him of the treatment he received in the field.”
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Other comments included “Happy Holocaust” and “Free Palestine”. Others cited the most recent tension between Israel and Hamas militant rulers in Gaza: “And now look at what Jews in Palestine.” None of Ebert’s TikTok messages were political or mentioned Israel, according to the Anti-Semitism Campaign. The Anti-Defamation League said hate-fuelled attacks on the nonagenary were part of an increase that included more than 17,000 tweets with variations of “Hitler was right” between May 7 and 14. Read more: Everything known about the dangerous post-collecting ‘black fungus’ that causes terror in India
As violence between Israel and Hamas continues to increase, we are witnessing a dangerous and drastic increase in anti-Jewish hatred right here at home, ADL Ceo Jonathan Greenblatt said Thursday.
The taunts towards Lily Ebert.
ADL found incidents of harassment, vandalism and violence from London to Los Angeles, as well as in Florida and Francia.Se received some 193 reports of possible anti-Semitic incidents since the conflict erupted in Israel, up from 131 the previous week.
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Ebert, who now lives in London and survived COVID-19 after being diagnosed in January, will not be deterred from her goal of educating the masses, her great-grandson said.
