COMBAT ANTISEMITISM MOVEMENT
Polish Police Force IDF Delegation to Lower Israeli Flags at Auschwitz In Unprecedented Interruption
August 3, 2025

In a troubling incident last Thursday, Polish police interrupted an official Israeli military delegation at the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau and ordered participants to remove their Israeli flags, abruptly halting a decades-old tradition of Holocaust remembrance led by uniformed officers. The group of 180 officers from the Israel Defense Forces and other Israeli security agencies was participating in the “Witnesses in Uniform” program, which brings Israeli personnel to sites of Nazi atrocities…The officer added that no such ceremony had ever been interrupted before — not at Auschwitz, nor at Treblinka, Warsaw, or Majdanek — making this break with protocol especially painful. “Forcing us to abandon a long-standing tradition — especially at a site where the Jewish people were nearly annihilated — was deeply disturbing,” said another member of the group. “Losing a significant part of our ceremony hurt us all.” READ MORE

COMBAT ANTISEMITISM MOVEMENT ‘Death to the IDF’ Graffiti and Torched Cars: FBI Probes Antisemitic Attack in St. Louis Suburb A suspected antisemitic hate crime is under investigation in Clayton, Missouri, after three vehicles were set on fire and graffiti reading “Death to the IDF” was discovered outside the home of a U.S. citizen who previously served in the IDF. The attack occurred early Tuesday morning and appears to have deliberately targeted the man and his family. According to the Clayton Police Department, responding officers discovered three vehicles had been damaged by a fire “believed to have been intentionally set.” The department confirmed that “antisemitic graffiti was written in roadway,” said it believes the victim “was specifically targeted.”