Sunday, April 12, 2015

Finland: Electoral posters of Jewish candidate defaced with swastikas

National Coalition MP Ben Zyskowicz deems the swastikas that appeared on electoral advertising in Helsinki  as an anti-Semitic outburst.

Ben Zyskowicz’s election advertisements had swastikas scrawled on them at a Kalliopuisto bus stop and at Pakilatie street.  The ad at Karhupuisto was personal. The one located on Pakilatie street was a poster with a Conservative Party co-candidate.  Zyskowicz is upset by the advertising vandalism.

"I think it is outrageous that the election advertisements were defaced, cut down and or torn. The elections are part of a democratic society. during elections, one should know how to respect other options and the right to campaign", Zyskowicz says.

Zyskowicz who is Jewish takes a really negative stance to the drawing of a swastika.

"The fact that the ads had swastikas drawn on them, I guess is an anti-Semitic outburst of an anti-Semite. It’s really cowardly to disrupt democracy".

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