The Milwaukee Jewish Federation has condemned as “horribly antisemitic” a sign posted by a Palestinian-American landlord on a building he owns in the city.
The sign features a swastika within a Star of David, along with the words, “the irony of becoming what you once hated.”
The landlord, Ihsan Atta, has previously compared Israel and the Nazis, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
Local MJF president Miryah Rosenzweig told the paper that the mural wasn’t meant to change anything in Israel and Gaza. “It has no capacity to do that,” she said, adding, “It’s only meant to be hurtful to our Holocaust survivors who see it.”
Ihsan Atta’s brother Othman Atta is executive director of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee—the largest mosque in Wisconsin—and his sister Janan Najeeb is president of the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition.
