On one of LA's busiest streets, vandals plaster antisemitic slurs on billboards

[Behind the Aegis]

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]

1. Wonder what clubs they belong to at UC Berkeley

Yeah, I'm still pissed our side is being so deadly quiet about that one.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. You made a very salient point, but...

...it still made me LOL!

Frankly, it is only a matter of time before another massacre.

[maxsolomon]

7. So, your theory is that UC Berkeley BDS student protestors

made these stickers and travelled to LA to paste them on billboards?

Or are you JOKING?

[Sympthsical]

8. It's an obvious joke

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]

3. Anti semitic flyers have been distributed in so cal neighborhoods recently

Something is going on

Coordinated attack

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. LA has a ton of Jewish people. Splashing graffiti

around gets lots of attention.

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

[70sEraVet]

6. The billboard thing is bold. But antisemitism, and displays of racism in general, are on the rise

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/