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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn one of LA's busiest streets, vandals plaster antisemitic slurs on billboards
Los Angeles police are investigating antisemitic vandalism on several billboards facing major streets in heavily Jewish neighborhoods of the city.
The slogan Zionists Jews control America was printed on a large sticker plastered across two of the billboards. Another sticker on the same billboards read: @DEFENDTHEHUMANRACE. On Wednesday an Instagram page by that name was taken down. Its Twitter account, which has 23 followers and contains two posts both anti-vaccine messages from January remains online.
A local ADL official said its extremism experts are unfamiliar with the group.
A photo posted to social media shows a third billboard which does not name Jews or Zionists, but seems to play on a similar trope that falsely claims that Jews control international bodies. It calls for the abolition of All corrupt institutions including NATO, the World Health Organization and the Council of Foreign Relations.
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Sympthsical
(9,215 posts)Yeah, I'm still pissed our side is being so deadly quiet about that one.
Behind the Aegis
(54,087 posts)...it still made me LOL!
Frankly, it is only a matter of time before another massacre.
maxsolomon
(33,475 posts)made these stickers and travelled to LA to paste them on billboards?
Or are you JOKING?
Sympthsical
(9,215 posts)But UCB's vigorous "anti-Zionist" banning by its clubs absolutely reeks of antisemitism, and I'll not pretend otherwise.
Edit: I'll also note "Zionist" is generally a word coming from the hard antisemitic Left. If this were right-wingers, they'd just use the word Jews. It's not like they're shy about their hatred or try to paper it over in some kind of "principled" way.
Demovictory9
(32,521 posts)Something is going on
Coordinated attack
leftyladyfrommo
(18,883 posts)around gets lots of attention.
Solly Mack
(90,817 posts)70sEraVet
(3,587 posts)throughout the country.
I was startled to read a couple of months ago of antisemitic flyers showing up in heavily-Jewish neighborhoods in Nashville.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2022/08/04/west-nashville-antisemitic-messages-leaders-respond/10234450002/
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