Nazi Flag Flown Outside Brisbane Apartment Right Next To A Synagogue

Authorities have pulled down a Nazi flag that was being flown outside a Brisbane apartment window.

To make matters worse, the UniLodge complex on Margaret Street in the city's CBD was opposite a synagogue.

Brisbane's Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner was shocked that his city would be targeted by neo-Nazis.

He wrote on Twitter: "This is sickening. For someone to fly this symbol of hatred and genocide right above the Brisbane Synagogue on Margaret St is pure evil. It's time for this vile flag to be banned in Queensland."

Police were called to the property after people complained about the problematic flag being flown.

The flag was taken down just before 11am and a 45-year-old man was charged with public nuisance.

What's even more brutal is that this incident came less than two weeks before the 83rd anniversary of the Night of Broken Glass, which was when Nazis launched anti-semitic attacks in Germany, Austria, and what's now known as the Czech Republic.

Dr Dvir Abramovich, chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission, said this is like 'plunging a knife in the heart of Holocaust survivors'.

"Anyone who loves our country will not feel comfortable knowing that there are individuals in our midst who are brazenly and proudly exhibiting a symbol that represents the pure evil that led to the death squads, gas chambers and the extermination of six million Jews," he said in a statement.

Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies vice-president, Jason Steinberg, was similarly horrified at seeing such a symbol being displayed in Australia in 2021, let alone outside a synagogue.

"That flag and that symbol, the Nazi swastika symbol, represents one of the most evil moments in human history. For that to appear in 2021 in Brisbane over a synagogue is just atrocious," he said.

"We called on the banning of the swastika to be displayed and Nazi flags like this because at the moment...it doesn't breach the serious hate or vilification law."

He said the state government is currently reviewing legislation around flying such a flag.

Victoria approved legislation earlier this year that would ban Nazi symbols from being displayed in public.

The laws will be introduced to parliament in the first half of next year and they will be the first of their kind in the country.

Museums are expected to have exemptions to display Nazi regalia and other symbols that fall under the ban.

Topics: Australia

Stewart Perrie

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