December 8, 2015
Media Coverage:
The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has denounced an Iluka (N.S.W) resident for flying a Nazi Flag on their veranda, labelling the display, “a stomach-turning outrage which not only demeans and denigrates the victims of the Holocaust, but desecrates the memory of the Australian soldiers who sacrificed their lives to defeat Hitler and his genocidal regime.”
Dr Dvir Abramovich, Chairman of the ADC, issued the following statement:
“This is a stomach-turning outrage. Displaying the Nazi flag not only demeans and denigrates the victims of the Holocaust, but desecrates the memory of the Australian soldiers who sacrificed their lives to defeat Hitler and his genocidal regime. Nazi flags have absolutely no place in Australia and the use of such imagery is shocking and perverse. Nazi symbols, such as this flag, have become synonymous with the pure evil that led to the death squads, gas chambers and the extermination of six million Jews (including a million and a half children) and millions of others. While we do not know what is motivating this person, it is chilling to think that there are still those who would brazenly and gleefully exhibit an object that stands for the warped supremacist ideology and unspeakable crimes of the Third Reich. The fact that residents are openly and publicly displaying the ultimate emblem of hate, extremism and mass murder, sends a menacing signal to all religious minorities that there are still people in our midst who are proud to associate with the vile and savage aims of the Nazis. We call on the Iluka local council and members of parliament to vigorously denounce this bigoted and anti-Semitic expression and to explore ways to expunge the use of Nazi and other racist insignia from our society.
For more information, please contact Dr Dvir Abramovich on, 03 9272-5677