#since early 2000s. this is nothing new but it gained more attention following BLM in 2020 with cops that would brutalized and arrest

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[ID: two photos from @/sarahofmagdalenw on Instagram. The first one shows a close-up on a cop with a nametag of ‘D. Sheinerman’. He's wearing a patch with a black background and stylized Israeli flag in white on the top left side, and a diagonal, white line in the middle. The bottom right side is hidden by a Vancouver Police patch. The second photo shows the full extremist patch, it revealing the Punisher skull occupies the bottom right side. The caption above the second photo reads, “Vancouver police wearing Zionist/Punisher skull (right-wing symbol with US origins)”. END ID]

link to original tweet (by @/seanorr) from February 15th, 2024

FURTHER READING:

link to a quote tweet and thread by @/seanorr—which includes links to several Canadian news sites and how they're neglecting to mention it possibly being an extremist patch.

link to a CTV News article where they did mention the symbol and it being linked to extremist groups. A direct quote from the article: “When asked to clarify what the entire patch depicted, and if the officer faced any consequences for wearing it, the VPD told CTV News it didn’t know the answers to those questions.”

link to an article by +972mag from October 19th, 2021 about the symbol being used by US soldiers and focusing on how Israeli soldiers have been documented wearing the above patch while brutalizing Palestinians. Direct quote: “Deutsch Tactic, an Israeli store in Haifa that specializes in tactical gear, even offers a free patch to anyone who purchases a shirt from them. According to the store, only a few IDF units actually prohibit the Punisher patch from being worn, and its use is widely accepted in practice.”

link to another +972mag article from November 18th, 2021 that talks more in depth about the Punisher logo being used as an extremist symbol, and by both US and Israeli far-right movements.

link to an article by theconversation from December 5th, 2022 that speaks of the use of the Punisher logo by police brutalizing innocent lives—especially focusing around 2020 and the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States.

(taken from @/sarahofmagdalene on instagram.)

A NOTE TO THOSE WHO MAY BE PARTICIPATING IN PRO PALESTINE ACTIONS IN VANCOUVER.

Please, even if you don’t live in Vancouver, reblog to spread awareness. The canadian media isn’t covering the protests, let alone the hostility protesters face, so we can only rely on each other to get news like this around!