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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

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An undated photograph shows a Confederate battle flag on display at the Levittown Fire Department Station 3 in Bethpage, New York. (Office of State Senator Anna M. Kaplan via JTA)
November 3, 2021, 6:33 am
New York State bans swastikas, other hate symbols on public property
Bill introduced after Confederate flag displayed in several firehouses; use permitted in museums and for educational purposes
By julia GERGELY
Illustrative image: Susan Foster, left, listens as her 7-year-old daughter Amelia plays on a Zebulon Baird Vance Statue at the Capitol as teachers and concerned citizens attend a Get Your Facts Straight! Rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, August 15, 2013. High school teacher Matthew Caggia, right, and others rallied to criticize the Republican legislature for public school policies approved this year and accuse them of misleading the public about their effects on the classroom. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
April 6, 2021, 4:06 am
Monument to Confederate governor who loved Jews is coming down in Asheville, NC
Complicated legacy of Zebulon Vance — US senator, North Carolina governor, defender of the Jewish people and white supremacist — is reexamined by a town and its Jewish mayor
By Andrea Cooper
Supporters of US President Donald Trump participate in a rally in Washington, January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
January 14, 2021, 11:10 pm
Experts: US Capitol violence was culmination of years of white supremacy threats
Historian says Trump’s election loss has become a new ‘Lost Cause’ for many extremists, justifying their use of hate symbols
By Christine Fernando and Noreen Nasir
Illustrative: Portraits of Holocaust survivors are displayed at the Museum of Jewish Heritage as a vintage German train car, like those used to transport people to Auschwitz and other death camps, is uncovered on tracks outside the museum, in New York, Sunday, March 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
January 8, 2021, 11:51 pm
‘Hate at our doorstep’: Confederate flag tied outside NYC Holocaust museum
Museum president links act to dispaly of flag by members of mob that stormed Capitol two days earlier, calls it ‘potent symbol of white supremacy’
By Ben Sales
TIlustrative: People carry an American flag and a Confederate flag as they walk on a pathway at the Gettysburg National Military Park, Saturday, July 4, 2020, in Gettysburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
July 17, 2020, 11:23 pm
Pentagon bans Confederate flag in way that avoids Trump’s wrath
Carefully worded policy doesn’t mention the word ‘ban’ or that specific banner; flags, monuments and military base names have become flashpoint in weeks since death of George Floyd
By Lolita C. Baldor
US President Donald Trump during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, July 14, 2020, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP)
July 15, 2020, 1:01 pm
Trump says cops are killing ‘more white people’ than African Americans
US president bristles at interview question about police killing Blacks, defends use of the Confederate flag as ‘freedom of speech’
By Jill Colvin
"I love this flag," states David Flynt of Hattiesburg, while standing outside the state Capitol with other current Mississippi flag supporters in Jackson, Miss., Sunday, June 28, 2020. Lawmakers in both chambers voted for state flag change legislation today. Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves has already said he would sign whatever flag bill the Legislature decides on. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
June 29, 2020, 4:51 am
Mississippi votes to remove Confederate battle emblem from state flag
Commission to design new flag that cannot include Confederate symbols and must feature words ‘In God We Trust’
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
In this Nov. 17, 2017 file photo, visitors to the American Museum of Natural History in New York look at a statue of Theodore Roosevelt, flanked by a Native American man and African American man. The statue will be coming down after the museum's proposal to remove it was approved by the city (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
June 22, 2020, 6:42 am
NYC museum to remove Teddy Roosevelt statue decried as symbol of white supremacy
American Museum of Natural History says statue ‘explicitly depicts Black and Indigenous people as subjugated and racially inferior’; Confederate statues continue to come down
By AP
In this Jan. 4, 2020, file photo a sign for at Fort Bragg, N.C., is shown. (AP Photo/Chris Seward)
June 11, 2020, 2:24 am
Trump rejects renaming military bases named for Confederate officers
Despite military showing willingness to rename 10 bases, US president says such a move would show ‘complete disrespect’ for soldiers who served and trained there over the years
By Robert Burns
This Aug. 17, 2017 image from video shows a Confederate flag, right, displayed alongside an Israeli flag and a colonial-era American one in the seventh-floor windows of an apartment in the East Village neighborhood of New York. (PIX11 News via AP)
August 22, 2017, 2:42 pm
After rocks and rage, Confederate, Israeli flags vanish from NYC window
Manhattan landlord had sought to sue tenant over banners that drew intense ire, and a fist through a window, in wake of Charlottesville violence
By Jennifer Peltz
A mosaic tile design meant to represent Times Square's status as the "Crossroads of the World" is part of the subway station's border, in New York, Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. Transit officials have decided to alter subway tiles at the station that have a design that's been compared to the Confederate flag, to make it "crystal clear" that they don't depict the flag. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
August 19, 2017, 9:36 am
Times Square subway tiles with Confederate flag look to be altered
NY Transit officials say design represents square’s status as ‘Crossroads of the World,’ and has no relation to Civil War symbol
By AP
In this Friday, May 19, 2017, file photo, workers prepare to take down the statue of former Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, which stands over 100 feet tall, in Lee Circle in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
August 19, 2017, 5:28 am
Confederate monuments across the US removed or vandalized
After deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, many cities move to erase symbols of the pro-slavery Civil War South
By AP
Robert Castello, owner of the Dixie General Store, discusses his dislike of neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan in Chulafinee, Ala., on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. Castello and other supporters of Southern heritage fear that extremists are hurting their cause with protests like the rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
August 18, 2017, 5:56 am
Southern anger: Nazis, KKK ‘hijacking’ Confederate debate
‘When I was growing up it was like a badge of honor to be proud of your Southern heritage,’ says Alabama’s Robert Castello. ‘To see it denigrated down to the point of Nazis is disgusting’
By JAY REEVES
This file photo taken on July 8, 2017 shows a member of the Ku Klux Klan holding a Confederate flag over his face during a rally, calling for the protection of Southern Confederate monuments, in Charlottesville, Virginia. (AFP PHOTO / ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS)
August 18, 2017, 3:51 am
NY apartment windows draped in Confederate, Israeli flags irk neighbors
Residents say the flags have covered apartment for over a year, but gained new meaning after Charlottesville violence
By ToI Staff
The statue of Confederat Gen. Robert E. Lee stands in the center of Emancipation Park the day after the Unite the Right rally devolved into violence August 13, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
August 14, 2017, 3:41 am
How Robert E. Lee went from hero to racist icon
The transformation of the confederate army general reflects changing moods in US around race, mythology and national reconciliation
By Russell Contreras
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