Last October, @Uber banned an Australian Hindu woman named Swastika Chandra from its app. It took them FIVE months to reinstate her access and apologize for the mix-up.
"Your first name is in violation and you need to change your name on the app," said Uber to Ms. Chandra.
This is precisely why our Swastika Education and Awareness Campaign (SEAC) exists (now in its fourth year), and why we formed the Swastika Awareness Coalition with Buddhist, Jain, and Native American organizations and spiritual leaders to spread badly needed education around our sacred symbols while denouncing hate, bigotry, and antisemitism.
Context matters, intentions matter. Let's use the name that Hitler used and intended --- Hakenkreuz (ha-ken-kroytz) -- a German word that translates to "hooked cross." He never called it "Swastika." Swastika is NOT an English word.
Glad to see the @HinduCouncilAu intervene in the matter and the support from the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies. 1/n
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Our recent public advisory on sacred Hindu symbols is meant to precisely prevent such unfortunate incidents and to educate the mainstream on the difference between the Swastika and Hitler's Hakenkreuz. 2/n

Attached is our infographic differentiating the two symbols. More resources are available at cohna.org and understandingswastika.org 3/n