Antisemitic flyers distributed in Pasadena, Beverly Hills neighborhood
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Police in Beverly Hills are investigating more than 200 flyers featuring anti-Semitic content that were distributed on driveways and front yards on Dec. 18 in the southwest area of the city. And in Pasadena, police and city officials said they collected more than 200 flyers with similar content after residents reported finding them early on Dec. 19.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Pasadena Police Department’s Lt. Anthony Burgess said the flyers were enclosed in plastic bags weighed down with small rocks and distributed overnight in a four-block area. The flyers reportedly contained “propaganda-style hate speech related to the COVID pandemic and the Jewish people,” the Beverly Hills Police Department said.
The Times reported that the leaflets mention a “COVID agenda” and “named several federal health and corporate officials while also noting they were Jewish. ‘Every Single Aspect of the COVID Agenda Is Jewish,’ ” the flyers said.
“As a City that is made up of a diverse population and being one of the only Jewish-majority cities outside of Israel, the City condemns this unwarranted hate speech that has been unsuccessfully used to disparage a community that has, and always will, stand strong together and fight hatred of any kind,” the Beverly Hills City Council said in a statement.
The Times said the flyers have been distributed in other areas of the country, including Texas and North Carolina. Encino-Tarzana Patch reported that the incident in Beverly Hills “is the second wave of antisemitic flyers in the area, after flyers were found on Nov. 28, the first day of Hanukkah.”
