Nazi Graffiti Sprayed on Grave in Israel
AP
Date: 03-30-05
JERUSALEM - Nazi graffiti was spray-painted Wednesday on the grave of Israel's founding father, David Ben-Gurion, and on a monument to Theodore Herzl who established the Zionist movement, Israeli police said.
The word "Hitler" was scrawled in black spray-paint on the Negev desert grave site of Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, Wednesday afternoon when the caretaker was patrolling elsewhere in the compound, police spokeswoman Liat Nidam said.
Around the same time, the phrase "Neo-Nazi Hail Beilin" was sprayed in the courtyard in front of a Jerusalem monument to Herzl, said Shmuel Ben-Ruby, the Jerusalem police spokesman.
The reference to Yossi Beilin, the head of the dovish Yahad political party, has led police to believe that ultra-nationalist Jews could be responsible for the graffiti, Ben-Ruby said.
Extremist Jews who oppose a planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip have been using Holocaust and Nazi slogans to denounce Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and others who support the pullout.
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