— The Wiener Library (@wienerlibrary)
December 3, 2018
In mid-October, the same poster was defaced with the words "Free Palestine" scrawled across it, along with a heart. The latest vandalism also contained the words "Free Palestine" and a heart, along with the words "one love".
TfL has been contacted for comment.
Ben Barkow, director of the Wiener Library, said: "This second assault within a few weeks on a poster advertising our exhibition about Kristallnacht is malicious and depressing.
“The November Pogrom of 1938 is not connected in any way to the position of Palestinians in present-day Israel. The false conflation is undisguised antisemitism."
Kristallnacht was a pogrom against Jews in Nazi Germany, carried out on November 9 and 10, 1938 on the pretext of responding to the assassination of a Nazi diplomat, Ernst vom Rath, by a Jewish man, Herschel Grynszpan, in Paris.
The Nazis killed more than 90 Jews and deported tens of thousands to concentration camps. More than 250 synagogues in Germany, Austria and the formerly Czech Sudetenland were destroyed, with more than 1,000 more damaged.
Some 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses were destroyed or damaged, with Kristallnacht - 'night of broken glass' - referring to the nationwide, state-sanctioned vandalism.
