Beachgoers were surprised last weekend as a banner featuring a swastika flew over Jones Beach and several others throughout the South Shore of Long Island.
The banner features a math equation, with a swastika plus a peace symbol equaling a heart. It then sent people to proswastika.org.
According to the website, the word swastika comes from the Sanskrit svastika. Su means “well”, and asti means “to be”, so swastika means “to be well,” the site reads.
Visitors of the beaches didn’t completely agree.
“We were at Jones Beach and all of a sudden I heard my daughter say “is that a swastika?” Barbara price said. “It flew over several times. That should not have been allowed.”