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Two historic cemeteries in Virginia, one Jewish and one African-American, were vandalized with graffiti featuring 777, shorthand for the triskele hate symbol.
The vandalism was discovered Monday at Richmonds Evergreen Cemetery and at the Sir Moses Montefiore Cemetery in Henrico County on the border with Richmond, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.
The triskele, or triskelion, looks like three interlocking sevens and was one of many ancient European symbols appropriated by the Nazis and later by white supremacist groups, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The 777 stand-in for the symbol was spray-painted throughout the Montefiore Cemetery, which was founded in 1886 and is the burial place of many Jewish immigrants from the former Russian Empire, according to the Times-Dispatch. Evergreen Cemetery houses multiple African American leaders from the post-Reconstruction and civil rights eras, including Maggie Walker, the first African American woman to charter a bank in the United States.
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(3,805 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,833 posts)Most times I have seen this symbol it has been associated with neo-Nazi groups in South Africa and parts of the Pacific. I think there are a few places in the former Eastern Bloc where it has cropped up, but it tends to be a rather obscure and largely unknown symbol. I am curious which group is now using this.