( JTA ) — Zechariah Mehler wanted to see the swastika for himself.
It was September, and Milwaukee was abuzz over a mural that had gone up on the side of a commercial building in the city’s sixth district. Painted on slabs of vinyl affixed to the brick, the mural — a large rectangle about the size of the building’s ground floor — featured a background that appeared to depict mass graves, weeping mothers, drones and other scenes of carnage in Gaza.
At the center: a Jewish star with a swastika inside it, along with the words, “The irony of becoming what you once hated.”…