The organization promoting the banner, Proswastika.org, aim to reclaim the swastika as a symbol of a peace, its meaning long before it became associated with the Nazis.
The banner shows the swastika over the Star of David. It flew as part of Swastika Rehabilitation Week starting July 5, according to the group's website.
But Mark Treyger, the New York councilman who represents Coney Island, is not buying that argument.
"I will not accept their twisted logic. And I am also going to speak out against sending chilling messages of fear and intimidation to residents," Treyger told CBS New York.
The Las Vegas-based International Raelian Movement paid for the banner, according to Proswastika.org.
Raelians believe extraterrestrials created humans thousands of years ago. The group is not anti-Semitic, Raelian spokesman Thomas Kaenzig told the Wall Street Journal.
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