Antisemitic flyers had been discovered distributed on the houses of residents in Palo Alto on Sunday, a spokesman for the Santa Clara County District Lawyer’s Workplace confirmed.
“Whoever wrote these have to be very weak,” District Lawyer Jeff Rosen mentioned in an announcement. “This county’s power is its range. Their hatred is pitiful. If their hatred crosses the road, they are going to be prosecuted and held accountable.”
The flyers blame the coronavirus pandemic on Jews and likewise record off a number of federal public well being staff and pharmaceutical business executives who're Jewish. Additionally they embody the slogan “Let’s go Brandon,” a coded political slogan used to insult President Joe Biden. Comparable flyers have been present in San Francisco and in Southern California during the last two months, in accordance with information studies.
“It’s despicable,” mentioned American Jewish Committee Northern California Director Serena Eisenberg. “We hope that individuals will stand collectively towards any group that's being focused.”
Final month Palo Alto police investigated racist graffiti focusing on African Individuals at El Carmelo Elementary Faculty.
Final yr authorities additionally investigated six situations of graffiti vandalism that occurred in parking tons, parks and public restrooms as hate crimes.
Police have mentioned they imagine it was potential two of the acts of vandalism — each in Metropolis Lot R parking storage on Excessive Avenue in September — might have been dedicated by the identical individual. Within the first case there was a racial epithet directed at African Individuals and the second there have been racial epithets towards African Individuals and an anti-Jewish image.
In March racial epithets directed at African Individuals had been found at Heritage Park, and “derogatory language” directed at whites had been discovered inside a restroom at El Camino Park in Might, July and September.