Three paintings featuring swastikas are removed from an exhibit at one of Rio’s best-known cultural centers.
Having paintings with swastikas in them “became even more serious because public school students pay regular visits to the venue,” said Herry Rosenberg, president of the Rio Jewish federation. “We reiterate our commitment to fight continuously any expression of anti-Semitism in our state.”
The exhibit was closed for one day but later reopened without the paintings. The complaint was made though the federation’s WhatsApp channel for reporting anti-Semitic incidents.
In June, vandals spray painted a swastika inside a Star of David on the entrance wall of the Brazilian Israelite Club, a Jewish institution attended by Jews and non-Jews and whose doors commonly remain open for neighborhood events.
Brazilian law allows sentences of two to five years imprisonment plus a fine for promotion of Nazi or Nazi-related propaganda.
— JTA
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