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Behind the Aegis

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Tue Jun 2, 2020, 04:01 PM Jun 2020

(Jewish Group) Los Angeles Jews take stock after George Floyd protests batter local institutions

Graffiti on the walls of a synagogue read “Free Palestine” and “f*** Israel.” A statue of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis, was smeared with anti-Semitic slogans.

Along with the synagogues, Jewish-owned buildings and stores were defaced, in several cases also with anti-Semitic graffiti. The businesses were looted, too.

This city’s Fairfax district, a heavily Jewish area that has been continuously represented by a Jewish city councilman since 1953, was hit particularly hard by the kind of vandalism that has struck major cities following the killing of George Floyd in police custody.

“The attack on our community last night was vicious and criminal,” Paul Koretz, the district’s current city councilman, said in a statement Sunday. “As we watched the fires and looting, what we didn’t get covered were the anti-Semitic hate crimes and incidents. Under the guise of protests, some advanced their anti-Semitic agenda.”

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(Jewish Group) Los Angeles Jews take stock after George Floyd protests batter local institutions (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jun 2020 OP
That sounds like trumpfuckery. C_U_L8R Jun 2020 #1
Some of it likely is for sure. Behind the Aegis Jun 2020 #2
Shhhhhh we can't talking about that here. EllieBC Jun 2020 #3

Behind the Aegis

(53,921 posts)
2. Some of it likely is for sure.
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 04:30 PM
Jun 2020

Put there are others who are not right-wing fucksticks who are also likely responsible and are simply taking advantage of the situation because they can get away with their antisemitism under the guise of another's movement; it happens more often than you might realize.

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