Antisemitic flyers found in Beverly Hills front yards on first day of Hanukkah, cops say
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Some Beverly Hills residents woke up on the first day of Hanukkah to find antisemitic flyers outside their homes, police said.
The flyers, enclosed in bags of rice to weigh them down, had “propaganda style hate speech related to the COVID pandemic and the Jewish people,” the Beverly Hills Police Department said in a news release. Police said they responded to the incident after receiving a call from a resident, who found one of the flyers in their front yard, shortly after 6 a.m. on Nov. 28.
“They accused the Jewish people (of) starting COVID, which is ridiculous,” Beverly Hills resident Richard Maize told KTLA.
Police and public works employees found the flyers in several blocks of the city, the release said, prompting the police department to provide additional patrols throughout the city “to ensure a safe holiday season.”
“Jew or non-Jew, you should be outraged. How can this happen?” Rabbi Chaim Mentz, of the Chabad of Bel Air, told KTLA.
The police department said it is investigating the incident. Anyone with information, video or images related to the incident is asked to call (310) 550-4951.
Hanukkah, a Jewish festival, is eight days long and will end in the evening of Dec. 6 this year.
This story was originally published November 29, 2021 at 9:38 AM with the headline "Antisemitic flyers found in Beverly Hills front yards on first day of Hanukkah, cops say."