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Neo-Nazi group gives salute outside Adelaide Holocaust Museum

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Published: 6 September 2022

Last updated: 5 March 2024

Police have been called in and online incitement policies invoked to deal with separate incidents of antisemitism in Adelaide.

A neo-Nazi group has posted a photo of its members giving the “Fascist Salute” in front of the Adelaide Holocaust Museum, in what has been described as another “vile act of antisemitism”.

The nationalist and racist extremist group shared the photo on their social media accounts this week, captioning the image: “Why a holocaust museum exists in Adelaide is anyone’s guess”.

Museum director Kathy Baykitch said it was “unthinkable” this kind of vile antisemitism was still around more than 80 years after the start of World War II.

Baykitch said the incident had been reported to police and had been captured on CCTV.

“It appears that a group of young males were seen outside of our museum over the weekend doing Nazi salutes. Obviously, we have gone over the footage that we have access to. To see it has been quite a disturbing incident,” she told the ABC.

The incident follows a sticker attack on the museum last month in which stickers featuring far-Right symbols combined with the Star of David appeared on museum signage and in other locations around Adelaide.

In a separate incident, the Adelaide University student On Dit Magazine published an article calling for “Death to Israel”.

The article written by Habibah Jaghoori, a member of the editorial board of the magazine, was posted to the magazine’s Facebook page, and pinned to the top of the page, with a message saying “Glory to the Intifada” and “Glory to the resistance”.

The article was removed following a complaint by the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI). Institute Director Andre Oboler said the  article used language used in Palestinian calls for violence and terrorism against Israel.

“Combined with the call for Israel’s destruction in the article itself, which is the goal of Hamas, the proscribed terrorist group in control of Gaza, this article may be regarded as pro-Hamas propaganda, and specifically propaganda glorifying and supporting violence and terrorism.”

OHPI contacted Medium, the online publishing platform used by On Dit Magazine, in relation to this article. Medium removed the article, ruling it breached their guidelines against “Threats of violence and incitement” and “Hateful content”.

The article was also posted to Facebook and was removed by Facebook following a complaint from OHPI.

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WATCH: "Modern face of Hitler" terrorises Adelaide Holocaust Museum (ABC)

Neo-Nazi trolls stage vile stunt at Adelaide Holocaust Museum (Adelaide Now)

Antisemitism at Adelaide University (OHPI)

Photo: Men pictured giving the Nazi salute (ABC/supplied)

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