BOSTON (VINnews) – The Boston Athletic Association and the Anti-Defamation League of New England on Friday condemned an incident in which a man dressed as Adolf Hitler stood on an Israeli flag and gave a Nazi salute to passing runners during the Boston Marathon.
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A video captured by marathon participant Michal Yalovski shows the man raising his right arm in a Nazi salute while saying “happy 4/20,” a reference to both the marathon date and Hitler’s birthday. The man was standing on an Israeli flag laid on the ground.
Yalovski, who was running the marathon, said she routinely looks for Israeli flags along the course for a sense of strength and connection. Her reaction shifted from joy to horror upon realizing what she was seeing.
“I was genuinely happy when I spotted one—until my mind fully processed what I was seeing, and that feeling quickly turned into shock and horror,” Yalovski said. “I was in complete disbelief—frozen, struggling to understand how something like this could be happening. How is it possible to witness such open hatred and antisemitism in 2026, in the United States?”
She filmed the encounter to document the event and said she was disturbed by the lack of immediate reaction from others nearby.
Israeli Consul to New England Benjamin Sharoni denounced the act as “open Jew-hatred.”
“The conduct of the individual exposed in this report is disgusting and beyond the pale. This is open Jew-hatred, plain and simple,” Sharoni wrote on X. “This has no place on the streets of Boston or anywhere else, and must be condemned without reservation.”
The Boston Athletic Association issued a statement Friday strongly denouncing the incident. The Anti-Defamation League of New England also condemned the display as antisemitic and called for authorities to investigate.
No arrests have been reported in connection with the incident.
Imbecil doesn’t realize Führer H. ym”sh would’ve wiped Negros along with Jews to purify his Aryan nation.
No arrests have been made??? Uh, it shouldn’t be too hard or taking this long. We kinda know what the guy looks like….This one didn’t hide behind a mask.
Guy looks like a retarded version of Eddie Murphy in Coming to America.
Strong candidate for most bizarre headline of the year.
We as a nation have to start ignoring these dumb things. So people hate Jews?? Tell me something I don’t know. Your afraid of antisemitism?? Turn to Hashem. Getting all hyped up about these guys won’t do anything
dressed like hitler? he is a stupid schvartz who hasn’t the brains to know anything about hitler. He is a simple antisemite.
What an idiot. Apparently the man does not realize Hit. . .did not like brown skin people either.
It’s sick he even slightly resembles him with that mustache. What’s even sicker nothing in mainstream media because he’s black. But at this point I don’t think even if he was white they would be reporting this. They’re more than happy the Jews have become the new scapegoat for everything including slipping on a banana peel
He’s a complete failure in life and is projecting his shortcomings onto the Jews. These frustrated losers are all the same. They need a nebulous, destructive force, i.e., the Jews, to demonize rather than look in the mirror at the true cause of their misery.
Another islamist nazi Farrakhan.
The affinity with Nazism by racist Arab-palestine. Its leader: Mufti al-husseini, with his hundreds of companions worked for Hitler. Already in 1934 Emil Ghouri in his ‘Arab Federation’ (7/7/34): “Hitler, whom the Arabs admire very much”; 1937 NYT (5/23/37) ‘All’ Arab Palestine celebrate Muhammad’s birthday “Christians Join Moslems in Fete Unprecedented in Palestine–Hitler and Duce Cheered”; journalist/writer John Gunther June 1939: “The Greatest Contemporary Arab Here is Adolf Hitler,” Ahmad Shukeiri (Shuqayri/Shukairy) wrote in 1969 book: “Our sympathies were with the Axis countries, headed by Hitler”; Feb-1941 Arab ‘palestine’ poll showed 88% for the Axis; the OSS (precursor to the CIA) report Aug-1942: ‘a majority of the Palestinian Arabs was fiercely “anti-Jewish” and saw in the approach of Rommel an ideal opportunity to murder all Jews their seize their property’; PLO’s Farouk Qaddoumi in 12/7/13 (RT) interview, asked: “You supported Hitler and his people?” “Germany, yes,” Qaddumi responded. “This was common among the Palestinians, especially since our enemy was Zionism, and we saw that Zionism was hostile to Germany, and vice versa.”
Monkey slave
Nu סך הכול a monkey.
This is the issue with free speech. No slippery slope doesn’t excuse all free speech and limits are needed