French hamlet Death to Jews 'must be renamed,' says Jewish group

[spaminator]

French hamlet Death to Jews 'must be renamed,' says Jewish group
QMI Agency
First posted: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 03:43 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 03:56 PM EDT
It's time for the French hamlet Death to Jews to change its name, says a prominent Jewish organization.
La Mort aux Juifs, a small hamlet just south of Paris, has held its name since the 11th century, wrote Simon Wiesenthal Centre spokesman Shimon Samuels in a letter to French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
"The name remained under Napoleon's emancipation of French Jewry," Samuels wrote. "(That) it was unnoticed during seventy years since the liberation of France from the Nazis and Vichy is most shocking."
Samuels urged "the earliest removal of this genocidal name and its replacement with an identity rather more welcoming to all."
The deputy mayor of Courtemaux, the village that has jurisdiction over the hamlet, dismissed Samuel's pleas.
"Why change a name that goes back to the Middle Ages or even further? We should respect these old names," Marie-Elizabeth Secretand told Agence France-Presse.
The hamlet of La Mort aux Juifs - translated to English as "Death to Jews." (Screenshot from Google Maps)

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[Blackleaf]

Another town which should change its name is Swastika, Ontario.

 

[Corduroy]

I don't see why they need to respect the name. What's there to respect about it?

 

[DaSleeper]

Another town which should change its name is Swastika, Ontario.

The town was named after the Swastika Gold Mine staked in the autumn of 1907 and incorporated on January 6, 1908. James and William Dusty staked the claims alongside Otto Lake for the Tavistock Mining Partnership, even though there is a legend that it is named after a native American word for "Good luck".

Source: Swastika, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Nazi Germany adopted the swastika symbol in 1920

 

[petros]

Hindus are Nazis.

 

[lone wolf]

Anything for attention might be a good name....

 

[Blackleaf]

Source: Swastika, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nazi Germany adopted the swastika symbol in 1920

So what? It's not pre-1920 anymore. It's 2014, a time when Europeans and other people (even Canadians, I assume) know the sinister connotations connected to the swastika.

 

[lone wolf]

So what? It's not pre-1920 anymore. It's 2014. Isn't 2014 a time when you should be looking into what 2015 wil bring if there's any hope of climbing out of the rut and moving forward?

 

[Blackleaf]

Source: Swastika, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Nazi Germany adopted the swastika symbol in 1920

When people around the world think about the swastika, 99.9% of the time they think of it as the symbol of the most evil regime in history, a symbol of bigotry and racism of the worst kind. That is the symbology it has in today's modern world. The fact it was once some sort of Hindu symbol is about the last thing that enters most people's heads when they think of the swastika..

Likewise, whenever anyone in any part of the world discovers there is a town in Canada called Swastika, they don't think: "Oh, those lovely Canadians. They've named a town after that lovely Hindu symbol, the Swastika, a symbol of love and peace." No. They actually think: "Those bloody liberal Canadian drugged-up hippies have a town named after the symbol of the most evil regime in history, a symbol of bigotry and racism of the worst kind. Isn't it time they got rid of this offensive name once and for all and gave the town a nicer name? I think those Canadians are largely ignorant as to what the swastika represents in today's world."

And, anyway, the Hindus are only one of many people and cultures around the world to have adopted the swastika. Civilisations around the world have used it for millennia, not just Hindus. However, its main symbology today, the one that the vast majority of people associate the swastika with, is of anti-Semitism, death, hatred, bigotry, violence and murder - but there is still a town in Canada called Swastika.

So what? It's not pre-1920 anymore. It's 2014. Isn't 2014 a time when you should be looking into what 2015 wil bring if there's any hope of climbing out of the rut and moving forward?

Having a town called Swastika doesn't help us "move forward".

Did you know that in Germany and many other European countries, swastikas are banned? They are outlawed because of the offence they can cause and because of their modern symbology. Yet Canada has a whole town called Swastika.

 

[DaSleeper]

Are you naturally that stupid or do you work at it every day?
The name of a town isn't a symbol ....If someone somewhere in the world with the same name as your hometown does something bad are you going to petition your town to change it's name? be realistic and take your head out of your a$$.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Are you naturally that stupid or do you work at it every day?
The name of a town isn't a symbol ....If someone somewhere in the world with the same name as your hometown does something bad are you going to petition your town to change it's name? be realistic and take your head out of your a$$.

I think he works at it every day.

 

[darkbeaver]

When people around the world think about the swastika, 99.9% of the time they think of it as the symbol of the most evil regime in history, a symbol of bigotry and racism of the worst kind. That is the symbology it has in today's modern world. The fact it was once some sort of Hindu symbol is about the last thing that enters most people's heads when they think of the swastika..

Likewise, whenever anyone in any part of the world discovers there is a town in Canada called Swastika, they don't think: "Oh, those lovely Canadians. They've named a town after that lovely Hindu symbol, the Swastika, a symbol of love and peace." No. They actually think: "Those bloody liberal Canadian drugged-up hippies have a town named after the symbol of the most evil regime in history, a symbol of bigotry and racism of the worst kind. Isn't it time they got rid of this offensive name once and for all and gave the town a nicer name? I think those Canadians are largely ignorant as to what the swastika represents in today's world."

And, anyway, the Hindus are only one of many people and cultures around the world to have adopted the swastika. Civilisations around the world have used it for millennia, not just Hindus. However, its main symbology today, the one that the vast majority of people associate the swastika with, is of anti-Semitism, death, hatred, bigotry, violence and murder - but there is still a town in Canada called Swastika.




Having a town called Swastika doesn't help us "move forward".

Did you know that in Germany and many other European countries, swastikas are banned? They are outlawed because of the offence they can cause and because of their modern symbology. Yet Canada has a whole town called Swastika.

We should change the name of London Ontario too, seeing as how it has been the seat of genocide and murderous wars for centuries, and lets not forget colonialising pricks still to this day. Now there's a Satanic record of murder hard to beat. Most of the world will forget the NAZIS hundreds of years before they forget the evil British Empire.

 

[lone wolf]

When people around the world think about the swastika, 99.9% of the time they think of it as the symbol of the most evil regime in history, a symbol of bigotry and racism of the worst kind. That is the symbology it has in today's modern world. The fact it was once some sort of Hindu symbol is about the last thing that enters most people's heads when they think of the swastika..

Likewise, whenever anyone in any part of the world discovers there is a town in Canada called Swastika, they don't think: "Oh, those lovely Canadians. They've named a town after that lovely Hindu symbol, the Swastika, a symbol of love and peace." No. They actually think: "Those bloody liberal Canadian drugged-up hippies have a town named after the symbol of the most evil regime in history, a symbol of bigotry and racism of the worst kind. Isn't it time they got rid of this offensive name once and for all and gave the town a nicer name? I think those Canadians are largely ignorant as to what the swastika represents in today's world."

And, anyway, the Hindus are only one of many people and cultures around the world to have adopted the swastika. Civilisations around the world have used it for millennia, not just Hindus. However, its main symbology today, the one that the vast majority of people associate the swastika with, is of anti-Semitism, death, hatred, bigotry, violence and murder - but there is still a town in Canada called Swastika.




Having a town called Swastika doesn't help us "move forward".

Did you know that in Germany and many other European countries, swastikas are banned? They are outlawed because of the offence they can cause and because of their modern symbology. Yet Canada has a whole town called Swastika.

So what.... Newfoundland has a place called Dil do - and Brit prudes still controlled it until 1949.

Wasn't it Brit Bard Billy who said: "What's in a name?"

 

[petros]

Does Blackpool offend Africans?

 

[Zipperfish]

This just in: the hamlet has agreed to rename itsef. New name: Spicniggawopkike.

 

[petros]

You'll have to drop the kike. It's offensive to Jews but the rest is fine.

 

[spaminator]

Mayor of French town 'Death to Jews', vows to change name
QMI Agency
First posted: Thursday, August 14, 2014 02:27 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 14, 2014 02:36 PM EDT
The mayor of the French hamlet Death to Jews has bowed to pressure to change the locale's controversial name, according to a report.
La Mort aux Juifs, a small hamlet just south of Paris, has held its name since the 11th century, wrote Simon Wiesenthal Centre spokesman Shimon Samuels in a letter to French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
"The name remained under Napoleon's emancipation of French Jewry," Samuels wrote. "(That) it was unnoticed during seventy years since the liberation of France from the Nazis and Vichy is most shocking."
Samuels urged "the earliest removal of this genocidal name and its replacement with an identity rather more welcoming to all."
The deputy mayor of Courtemaux, the village that has jurisdiction over the hamlet, dismissed Samuel's pleas.
But on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported the mayor said he would submit a proposal to change the name, which now only exists on official land records after the town removed all signs and everyone's addresses to numbers in the 1990s.
Mayor of French town 'Death to Jews', vows to change name | WORLD | World | News

 

[Blackleaf]

We should change the name of London Ontario too, seeing as how it has been the seat of genocide and murderous wars for centuries, and lets not forget colonialising pricks still to this day. Now there's a Satanic record of murder hard to beat. Most of the world will forget the NAZIS hundreds of years before they forget the evil British Empire.

To compare the British Empire, the most benign empire in history, to the Nazis is just shocking. That is the same British Empire which defeated the Nazis and put an end to their evil.

So what.... Newfoundland has a place called Dil do - and Brit prudes still controlled it until 1949.

And you should give it back.

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Are you naturally that stupid or do you work at it every day?
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The name of a town isn't a symbol ....If someone somewhere in the world with the same name as your hometown does something bad are you going to petition your town to change it's name? be realistic and take your head out of your a$$.
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A perfect example of why Canadians today - stuck in their own pot-smoking little liberal universe - just don't understand just how evil the Nazis were and just how offensive the term "swastika" still is to many millions of people and that the name "Swastika" for a town just isn't appropriate today.

Back in 1935 the government of Ontario - much wiser back then than modern liberal Canadians, who aren't as concerned about the feelings of Jews and Holocaust survivors as they are about the feelings of Muslims - knew just how offensive the name "Swastika" is and proposed to change the town's name to Winston. This was similar to how, back during WWI, the town of Berlin, Ontario changed its name to Kitchener. However, unbelievably, the townfolk of Swastika preferred the name "Swastika" over "Winston", and refused to change the name.

In 2014, however, the term Swastika is even more offensive than it was back in 1935, and it's now definitely time for the people of that town to start having a serious think about changing its name to something more appropriate.

 

[captain morgan]

And you should give it back.

You're welcome to come and try to take it back, albeit, it would be horribly embarrassing for you to be expelled from NorAm a second time in a row.

 

[Blackleaf]

You're welcome to come and try to take it back, albeit, it would be horribly embarrassing for you to be expelled from NorAm a second time in a row.

Who's going to expel us? The Mounties?

Newfoundland was English, and then British, long before it was ever Canadian. What makes you think Canada has more right to Newfoundland than Britain has?