The swastika is now an infamous sign of hatred, extremism, and genocide. But it has a long history and has been used by cultures worldwide to signify good fortune and luck. Carlsberg and Finnish Air ...

Sheetal Deo was shocked when she got a letter from her Queens apartment building’s co-op board calling her Diwali decoration “offensive” and demanding she take it down. “My decoration said ‘Happy ...

Adolf Hitler did not create the swastika. He chose it, redesigned it, and placed it at the center of a movement that wanted ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has released a new policy confirming that symbols like the swastika are prohibited after an earlier report suggesting a new policy dropped the classification of various hate ...

From Yad Vashem: Copy of 1931 photo taken in Kiel, Germany across from Nazi headquarters by Rachel Posner, the wife of Rabbi Akiva Baruch Posner. On the back of the original photograph, Rachel has ...

Social media users are sharing images of Christmas decorations in Lielvārde, Latvia, and claiming they show Nazi-style swastikas. However, the symbol is rooted in the country’s history and folklore ...

Many spiritual practitioners believe the symbol is used to invite positive energies into a space and remove negative energy.

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Sheetal Deo and her husband, Sanmeet Deo, hold a Hindu swastika symbol in their home in Syosset, N.Y., on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. Hindus, Buddhists and Native Americans are trying to rehabilitate the ...