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Shira Banki's father on the desecration of the synagogue: "The use of a picture of my house - a punch in the stomach"
In an interview with 103FM, Uri Banki referred to the destruction of the "Young Israel" synagogue in Bnei Brak over the weekend, in which he spray-painted swastikas and threw pictures of his daughter who was murdered at the 2015 Pride Parade in Jerusalem.
"The person who did this is a man with a very difficult problem in perceiving reality, let alone a criminal."
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Sunday, 01 August 2021, 08:51 Updated: 09:24
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Uri Banki, the father of Shira who was murdered at the Pride Parade in Jerusalem in 2015, said in an interview on 103FM today that the person who used his daughter's photo "as part of a vandalism of spray-painting swastikas, is a man with a very serious perception of reality, let alone a criminal."
Banki referred to what he said to Golan Yokfaz and Anat Davidov about the destruction of the "Young Israel" synagogue in Bnei Brak on Friday, when unknown individuals spray-painted swastikas on the building, as well as throwing pictures of his daughter in the entrance plaza.
"A little punch in the stomach that makes use of an image of poetry of this kind," he described.
He further said that on that Friday we marked the sixth anniversary of Shira’s murder.
"There is no connection between us and the desecration of synagogues, between poetry and the desecration of synagogues," he stressed, "it is the opposite of everything we believe in and poetry believed in it, it is the opposite of everything we try to do. It is just disgusting."
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Regarding accusations that this is incitement by senior government officials against the ultra-Orthodox and religious public, Banki replied: "We must continue to do the deeds we do - the sane majority who want to live here together, because I assume with absolute certainty that such an act has very little support, if any." .
Banki added and clarified that one should not deal with the serious act of ignoring: "God forbid to ignore, one should deal with it, but one should know that some people have managed to create a reality for us."
Yaakov Wieder, chairman of the Likud faction in the Bnei Brak municipality, also responded to the remarks: "They took pictures of the late Shira Banki and desecrated her name. Scattered her pictures.
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