Neo-Nazis ‘Zoom-bomb’ shiva with swastikas
V A DIGITAL shiva was disrupted last week by neo-Nazis who displayed swastikas and photos of Adolf Hitler, and broadcast antisemitic messages.
The shiva was held at 8pm on August 5 in honour of Linda Huglin, 68, who had been buried in Liverpool earlier in the day.
As many of the 100 guests who had attended her funeral – also brooadcast online – began arriving for the shiva on video-conferencing app Zoom, they were met with a “vile and profoundly shocking scene”.
“There was this awful sight on different screens,” said Raphael Gee, who attended said.
“There were swastikas and cartoonish-type propaganda that wouldn’t have been out of place in Nazi Germany,” he added.
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Mr Gee said that there were about “three or four” individuals who disrupted the event, adding that they had entered the session under the names of Anne Frank and Adolf Hitler.
Gwendoline Lamb, who also attended, recalled: “They were playing films of the Nazis, of Hitler, they were shouting that there was no Holocaust, and they showed images of people saluting Hitler. It was horrific.”
Hertfordshire Constabulary and Dorset Police were made aware of the incident, and Dorset Police is dealing with the incident. The CST was also informed.
Ms Huglin had been the founder and chairwoman of Women’s United Jewish Appeal in Liverpool, as well as the ex-chairwoman of the Liverpool branches of the CST and Women’s International Zionist Organisation.
It is believed that the neo-Nazis were able to access the event through a link that was posted on Facebook.
David Coleman, the administrator at Allerton Synagogue, said that the incident “shows the danger of posting things on Facebook”.
He added that while Allerton were the ‘hosts’, the event was operated independently by Ms Huglin’s family.