Opinion: Dia de Los Muertos altar at Balboa Park’s Centro Cultural de la Raza promoted hate

As part of their celebration of the Day of the Dead, Balboa Park’s Centro Cultural de la Raza put up an ofrenda (altar) honoring, among others, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Oct. 7 massacre that killed over 1,200 Israelis, and Qasem Soleimani, the deceased leader of the Iranian Quds Force responsible for hundreds of American and coalition deaths in Iraq. The ofrenda also, at first, featured the flags for Iran, Hezbollah and the Houthis. The Houthi flag calls for death to America and to Israel along with the slogans “Curse upon the Jews” and “Victory to Islam.” Hovering over the ofrenda is an inverted red triangle, a symbol Hamas uses in their combat videos to mark Israeli targets and now generally represents terrorist violence against Jews. Hamas, we should remember, has been designated as a terrorist group by the United States, Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan and the UK.

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