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Swastika and "Auschwitz Welcome" Found at LA Bus Stop

Graffiti of a swastika and the words “Auschwitz Welcome” were found on the window of a Los Angeles bus stop on January 11.

The Jewish advocacy group Stop Antisemitism first exposed the vandalism, tweeting out a photo of the graffiti, stating that it was found on the corner of Vineland Avenue and Ventura Boulevard. “This vile hatred must never be tolerated in your city,” Stop Antisemitism tweeted to Mayor Karen Bass.

The next day, Los Angeles councilmember Nithya Raman announced the graffiti was cleaned up.

Other Jewish groups also condemned the graffiti including AJC and the Simon Wiesenthal Center .

“This vile graffiti is an unsettling reminder that anti-Jewish hate is the fastest growing category of hate crimes in America,” American Jewish Committee Los Angeles Assistant Director Odin Ozdil said in a statement to the Journal. “No community should have to be confronted with threats to their existence, especially those that evoke such horrific trauma as the Holocaust. We encourage local authorities to be unrelenting in their pursuit and prosecution of the perpetrator of this hateful act.”

“[The] Jewish community needs the help and empathy from our non-Jewish neighbors if we are to push back on the distressing anti-Semitism on our streets and on social media,” Simon Wiesenthal Center Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action Agenda Rabbi Abraham Cooper similarly said in a statement to the Journal. “Perpetrators don’t worry that a shrinking police presence would detect such hate.”

Jewish Woman Slapped by Laughing Teens in Brooklyn Antisemitic Attack

A Jewish woman was randomly assaulted as she entered a store in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon.

At around 3:30 p.m. the woman entered a Crown Heights store when she was slapped in an unprovoked attack, according to ColLive.

A group of three teenagers accosted her, with one of them slapping her. The teens began to laugh and then ran away, according to the report.

The local Shomrim were called and they arrived on the scene to help with the situation.

The incident follows a disturbing pattern of antisemitic assaults taking place in Brooklyn, with many occurring in Crown Heights.

Earlier in the month, a Hasidic pedestrian was hit by a vehicle while attempting to cross the street in Crown Heights. The injury was deemed a possible bias incident, and the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force opened an investigation.

In July, an arrest was made after the brutal assault of an Orthodox man in Crown Heights earlier in the month who was beaten in front of his five-year old child.

In March, a Jewish man was repeatedly hit in head by man wielding metal cane in an apparent hate crime attack.

Second Memorial Commemorating Greek Holocaust Victims Vandalized

A mural commemorating Greek Jews who were deported from Thessaloniki and sent to Nazi concentration camps during World War II was vandalized this week, according to Kathimerini, a Greek daily newspaper.

A similar incident occurred two weeks ago, the Vadaris Neighborhood Group, an addiction and recovery group that made the mural, told the paper on Tuesday. In December, at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, a swastika was graffitied on a monument commemorating a Jewish cemetery that was razed by the Nazis in 1942.

“Members of fascist groups covered a large part of the mural with swastikas and symbols of hate, trying once again to tarnish what the mural symbolizes and recalls: The greatest crime in the history of mankind, the Holocaust,” the group told Kathimerini. “This is the second time in two weeks that a memorial that honors the long-standing Jewish presence in our city and the victims of the Holocaust has been targeted by neo-Nazis.”

Vadaris Neighborhood added that it is organizing an effort to remove the graffiti and said “such acts of blatant hatred do not honor the culture and history of our city are typical of the ignorance, illiteracy, and antisemitic beliefs of some brazen fellow citizens.”

Calling on Greek authorities to “locate the perpetrators and bring them to justice,” Israeli Ambassador to Greece Noam Katz on Wednesday denounced the incident.

“I am appalled by the defacing with fascist symbols of the mural dedicated to the deportation of the Jews of Thessaloniki in the Holocaust at the city’s new train station and I condemn it,” he tweeted. “There can be no tolerance for such phenomena perpetrated by extremists in a city and country, which paid such a heavy price during the Holocaust. We trust that the Greek authorities will locate the perpetrators and bring them to justice.”

No criminal charges have yet been made, according to Greek outlets.

'Goyim Defense League' Washington Member Arrested After Passing Out Antisemitic Flyers

A man walking through a Brownstown Township subdivision at about 2:30 a.m. Monday as he passed out antisemitic literature sparked concern and was eventually arrested after police found a concealed weapon on him.

According to township police, the department received a call that appeared to describe a suspicious person in the area.

Detective Lt. Andrew Starzec said a couple of people were alerted by the motion detector from their home security devices.

The man, a 24-year-old Gibraltar resident, was arrested in the Whispering Woods subdivision.

“It was a suspicious situation,” Starzec said. “No one should be out at 2:30 a.m. handing out literature.”

Starzec said their intent was to investigate the suspicious behavior, not to get into the debate whether what he was distributing was representative of hate speech or freedom of speech.

While talking with the man, police discovered he was carrying a Ka-Bar Knife.

According to Starzec, the blade on those knives are often about 10 inches and are military-style knives. They also considered combat knives.

Police said the man was arrested for carrying the military knife without a permit, a misdemeanor.

The man was arrested without incident. He gave police no explanation for what he was doing or what he was trying to accomplish.

One resident said she, like other residents, found a packet on her porch; she said she didn’t want to open it up all the way. Her husband sealed it in a plastic baggie.

“I didn’t even want to touch it,” said the woman, who asked not to be identified out of fear. “I’ve lived here for 22 years and I’ve never seen anything like this before. We have a very diverse community and everyone gets along. We look out for one another. There is a guy on video giving a Nazi salute before leaving the yard. What an idiot.”

She said the incident was particularly disturbing for those who have children in the subdivision.

Machete Wielding Man Harassed People Outside Jewish School

A man with a machete yelled and allegedly threatened people outside a Jewish religious school in Lakewood on Thursday evening said police, who are still looking for the suspect.

No one was injured in the incident.

The man, who remains unidentified, wore a ski mask and played music loudly from a portable speaker outside the building at 901 Monmouth Ave. at about 8:30 p.m., witnesses told the Lakewood Police Department.

The address is home to a Jewish school, Bais Medrash Toras Chesed, located on the corner of Monmouth Ave. and 9th Street in Lakewood.

The incident was first reported by New Jersey 101.5.

An individual who first notified police reportedly saw the suspect and walked outside the building, according to police, who did not say whether it was a student who had called. The suspect then “reportedly got upset” and began to yell profanities, witnesses told police. The suspect made no specific threats, officials said.

The caller went back inside the building and told one of his friends about had happened, according to police.

The caller’s friend told police he looked out the door and saw the man brandishing a machete and continuing to yell about 20 feet away, officials said.

The suspect left the scene before officers arrived, according to police.

Officers conducted an “extensive search of the area,” which included an evacuation of the building Thursday evening, police said.

Witnesses described the suspect as about 5-foot-10 with a heavy set build, police said. He was wearing a white-and-purple jacket and was last seen walking east on 9th Street, according to police.

The Anti-Defamation League, an organization that fights against antisemitism, said in a tweet it was aware of the situation and had reached out to officials and community partners to learn more.

Officials ask anyone with information to call the Lakewood Police Department at 732-363-0200.

German Synagogue Vandalized, and Set on Fire, Suspect Freed by Judge

A 21-year-old man is said to have smashed the window of a synagogue on New Year’s Eve in Ermreuth in the Forchheim district and then tried to start a fire. As the police headquarters in Upper Franconia and the public prosecutor’s office in Bamberg announced on Tuesday, witness statements and video surveillance of the synagogue led to the 21-year-old suspect being arrested last Thursday.

He is accused of vandalizing a window and throwing firecrackers inside. He wanted to start a fire, the police and prosecutors continued. According to initial findings, the investigators are assuming an antisemitic crime with a right-wing extremist background.

Due to the lack of a risk of absconding, the investigating judge at the district court in Bamberg refused to issue an arrest warrant last Friday. The suspect was therefore released. In the meantime, the public prosecutor’s office has lodged an appeal against this decision. Since Tuesday, the Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism (ZET) has taken over the investigation.

The U.S. based Jewish advocacy group StopAntisemitism tweeted their outrage of the release.

Ludwig Spaenle (CSU), the antisemitism commissioner of the Bavarian state government, is appalled. He classifies the attack as “particularly disgusting” because particularly important and positive work is being done around the synagogue. Wanting to damage this cultural commitment with an attack is regrettable. Spaenle only visited the facility in November and met Mayor Martin Walz (CSU), whom he now offered to help if that should become necessary.

The village of Ermreuth has around 900 inhabitants and is part of the market town of Neunkirchen am Brand. The two-storey building of the former synagogue dates from the 19th century and was used for Jewish services until around 1930. The building was damaged and desecrated during the National Socialist pogroms in November 1938, but not destroyed.

In the past, Ermreuth was in the headlines several times because of right-wing extremists. From the late 1970s, Ermreuth Castle in the Forchheim district was the headquarters of the right-wing extremist organization Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann, which was banned in January 1980, as Günter Dippold, district home attendant for the Upper Franconia district, confirmed when asked by BR. In 1981, the police carried out excavations around Ermreuth Castle to find further evidence against the military sports group. Investigators had previously been able to secure weapons, explosives and ammunition.

The leader of the group, Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, still lived in the castle years later. Among other things, the Oktoberfest attack in 1980 went to the account of the Wehrsportgruppe. According to current knowledge, there is no connection between the crime and the military sports group.

Antisemitic Banner Hung Over Busy Louisiana Highway Overpass

On the heels of antisemitic flyers popping up in neighborhoods on both sides of the Red River, a vile antisemitic banner was discovered Saturday on a busy Shreveport highway overpass.

It’s unknown how long it had been out there hanging from the Fairfield Avenue overpass when a Shreveport man saw it, took the next exit, came back and tore it down.

KSLA News 12′s Doug Warner caught up with him just moments before he tossed it into a Dumpster.

The person responsible for the banner blames the many woes of the world on the Jewish faith.Sadly, the person behind last month’s flyers hid behind freedom of speech and likely faced nothing more than littering if he or she were caught.

But for the man who cut down the crude but large banner, he feels this rises to a whole new level.

“I’ll continue to take it down if I see it. I would think free speech in your yard is one thing; but out on a public highway, that’s something different. I don’t think we have the right to put signs up on the side of the interstate.”

KSLA News 12 didn’t identify the man to prevent the person responsible for putting up the banner from targeting him for taking it down.

Late Monday afternoon, Warner spoke with Shreveport police to see if legally a line has now been crossed since the banner was out on the interstate.

Amazon Canada Sells Vacuum the Cleans "Jewish"

Amazon Canada is sparking ire after a listing was posted on the site for a vacuum that can clean "Jewish."  

The ad on Amazon for the "lightweight stick" vacuum cleaner includes photos showing different types of garbage the vacuum is capable of cleaning, including hair, dust, and "Jewish." 

Watchdog group StopAntisemitism was the first to draw attention to the ad via Twitter, expressing hope that the statement was a typo. 

"We sincerely hope this is an innocent mistake and not deliberate antisemitism," the group said on Sunday.  

The listing was adjusted a few hours after StopAntisemitism drew attention to the product listing without explanation.

Back in November, Jewish and human rights NGOs issued requests to Amazon to remove an antisemitic film shared by basketballer Kyrie Irving and the books the documentary was based on.

Even after weeks of pressure, the company’s CEO Andy Jassy, who is Jewish, said in December that Amazon had no plans to remove or add a disclaimer to Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America.

“As a retailer of content to hundreds of millions of customers with a lot of different viewpoints, we have to allow access to those viewpoints, even if they are objectionable – and they differ from our particular viewpoints,” Jassy told the audience at the New York Times DealBook Summit.

Orlando Neighborhood Blanketed with Antisemitic Flyers

A West Orange County neighborhood is outraged after dozens of flyers with antisemitic language ended up on people’s doorsteps Saturday.

Many people found flyers with disturbing content related to the Jewish community.

Neighbors said the people who were responsible for putting the flyers up did so in broad daylight, wearing masks on their faces.

Some neighbors said they watched the people hand the flyers out.

In the security footage provided to Channel 9 by neighbors, we saw people rented a U-Haul truck to pass out the flyers. At this point, we are unaware if anyone is facing charges.

Neighbors told Channel 9 they did report the situation to law enforcement and shared that security footage with them.

One side of the paper singles out members of the Jewish community for their roles in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic.

The other side pictures members of the Biden administration with Jewish symbols next to their names and paired with derogatory statements.

Channel 9 spoke to two neighbors who were not home when it happened, but after finding the flyers, they went back and checked their security footage to find similar images.

Lou Pendas said after reading the flyer, he had to speak out.

“There’s enough hate in the world, and this country is highly divided and it’s very disturbing,” Pendas said.

Pendas’s neighbor Jared Meyers said after his son found the flyer and brought it to him, he was not sure what to do at first.

Meyers then did some research and because no direct threat was made, he did not think it was appropriate to call the police, and reported the incident to the anti-defamation league.

“It was pretty easy to fill out the form and when I did, they displayed a heat map across the country and it showed different types of hate crimes and anything that was antisemitic,” he said. “And that’s when I saw this wasn’t the only time this has happened.”

Channel 9 also received a statement from the Holocaust Resource and Education Center, which said it is deeply concerned by the content appearing in the community.

A center representative said something like this happened last week, where antisemitic content has been passed out and put on display around Central Florida.

Officials are asking people who receive the flyers to report them to law enforcement.

“I think that this will definitely make people afraid,” Myers said. “I’m not afraid by them doing this, just concerned that this is being done.”

Channel 9 has reached out to the sheriff’s office to see if the office is investigating this incident and is waiting to hear back.

Prestigious LA Prep School Announces Fourth Antisemitic Incident

President Rick Commons reported the fourth on-campus antisemitic vandalism incident this year during a Senior Class Meeting assembly Friday. He said a swastika was found carved into a desk. 

In his speech, Commons said the school had also discovered a swastika etched in a different desk earlier this year, along with swastikas drawn on a whiteboard. Neither of those incidents had been formally announced to students and parents. 

Commons did previously reveal one case of vandalism in an email Oct. 12, which said several swastikas and the words “Hitler Rocks” were found carved into a Seaver Academic Center desk. 

When announcing the discovery of the first carved swastika, Commons said he condemns both the incident on campus as well as intensifying antisemitism around the world.  

“These hateful words and symbols should cause all of us to feel pain, fear and anger,” Commons said. “This is an offense to all of us, not just our Jewish students and community members, for whom we feel special concern as we condemn both this disturbing incident at HW and the awful rise of antisemitism around the world.”

Black Teens in Pittsburgh Harass Jews, Call them "Fake"

A group of black juveniles harassed Jewish community members in the Greenfield neighborhood, asking if they are “fake Jews” and swearing at them, according to Shawn Brokos, director of community security for the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh.

Two separate incidents were reported to the police, but because the suspects are juveniles, charging them with crimes is “challenging,” Brokos said. Nonetheless, she added, it is crucial to report these types of incidents to law enforcement.

Brokos said it is unclear whether the suspects are affiliated with the Black Hebrew Israelites, “a fringe religious movement that rejects widely accepted definitions of Judaism and asserts that people of color are the true children of Israel.” The movement made headlines when Kanye West posted Israelite memes on his Twitter account on Oct. 9, and on Oct. 27 when NBA star Kyrie Irving posted a link to a movie, “Hebrews to Negroes,” which advanced the Israelite theology. On Nov. 21, hundreds of Israelites demonstrated outside the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, chanting, “We are the real Jews.”

The community is urged to call 911 if they are victims of antisemitic harassment, Brokos said.

Maryland Area Man Attempts to Break into Jewish Preschool

The Montgomery County Police Department is investigating an attempted break-in at a preschool on Christmas Day, officials said.

At approximately 8:15 p.m., a man arrived at the Shomrai Emunah Preschool in the 800 block of University Boulevard West in Silver Spring and allegedly tried to break into the building, MCPD said.

After being unable to enter the school, the man left in a silver Acura. Police described him as average height, average build, with short black hair, wearing a white face mask, a black jacket, a black shirt, black jeans and black-and-white shoes.

Nearby surveillance was able to capture images of the suspect and his vehicle.

Anyone with information regarding this suspect or this crime is asked to call the police at 240-773-5530 or 240-773-TIPS or contact Crime Solvers of Montgomery County at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477). A reward of up to $10,000 is being offered for information that leads to the arrest of the suspect. Callers can remain anonymous.

Michigan School Staffer Receives Antisemitic Death Threat Forcing School Lockdown

Brian Walmsley, Richmond Community School Superintendent

UPDATE January 10: Dean of Students -Michael Woodberg - has resigned after receiving the antisemitic death threats. A second faculty member has now also received a death threat; more here.

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Police are investigating an antisemitic death threat made against a Richmond Community Schools staff member that triggered all schools in the district to close through the week.

All Richmond Community Schools went into lockdown the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 3, after staff members discovered a written death threat at the middle school upon their return from holiday break. There were no students present at Richmond Middle School or any other schools in the district on Tuesday, however, as the schools were closed for an unrelated issue.

The threatening note, identified by police as a “complaint containing antisemitic remarks,” was reportedly directed at one specific administrator of Richmond Middle school -- the threat was not made to Richmond students, the building or the district as a whole.

According to Superintendent Brian Walmsley, the note contained a death threat that was directed at the middle school staff member, their spouse and their children. The target of the threat was notified, officials said, though they have not been publicly identified.

While police investigate the threat, all Richmond Community Schools will be closed through Friday, Jan. 6, and will reopen on Monday, Jan. 9. The school was already closed on Tuesday, Jan. 3 due to a staff shortage, Walmsley said.

The cancellation of athletic events scheduled for Wednesday through Friday this week will be determined on a day-to-day basis, officials said Tuesday.

Richmond police are investigating the threatening note “with high priority,” and said that they take all threats seriously. Walmsley said Tuesday that the district plans to insist that the “individual or individuals involved with leaving this threatening note be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. This is beyond comprehension that someone would threaten the safety of an employee and their family.”

Anyone with information about the threat is asked to call Detective Roberts at 586-727-4000.

Florida Golf Course Vandalized with Antisemitic Graffiti

Deputies in Martin County are searching for someone who vandalized a golf course with racist and antisemitic messages.

Authorities say they found the graffiti, which depicted racial slurs as well as both a swastika and star of David with a line through it, inside the golf course tunnel at the Martin Downs Golf Club and Resort.

Investigators believe the vandalization happened sometime overnight between Sunday, Jan 1. and Monday, Jan. 2. Shoeprints found on scene indicated the person stepped in wet paint before leaving the scene.

The sheriff's office contacted Palm Beach middle and elementary school's to see if any students had bright orange paint on their shoes.

No information about a possible suspect has been released.

White Supremacist Group 'GDL' Projects Antisemitic Messages onto Orlando Building

‘Goyim Defense League’ founder Jon Minadeo II (left) sits with fellow member and convicted pedophile Jesse Shenk (right)

More hateful words targeting the Jewish community showed up on the side of a building on New Year’s Eve, this time in downtown Orlando.

Cell phone video showed the words “vax the Jews” scrolling across the top of an office building on Orange Avenue at Washington Street as well as “Hitler was right” on the Fairwinds Credit Union building at 135 West Central Blvd.

During the brief video, no one in the crowd reacted to the act of antisemitism.

The Jewish advocacy group that monitors antisemitism - StopAntisemitism - tweeted one of the projections, noting the group responsible was the white supremacist group ‘Goyim Defense League’ headed up by known antisemite Jon Minadeo II.

The owner of a restaurant on the bottom floor of the building where the hateful words were displayed suspected they were projected from a nearby parking garage. Orlando Police said they are investigating.

Jewish Father and Young Son Assaulted in London by Antisemite

A Jewish man and his young son were assaulted in London while taking a walk, a local Jewish community watch group reported on Friday.

“A racist male unhappy with the child’s speed pushed the 1-yr-old shouting ‘Move F** Jew, I will stab & kill you’ before cutting the victim on his face/hand,” Shomrim Stamford Hill, which provides security and support to the local Orthodox Jewish community — one of the largest in Europe — tweeted on Dec. 30. The son, the group added, was also pushed to the ground.

The incident, for which the mother was present, is the latest in a spate of attacks on Jewish Londoners that have been occurring all year and peaked shortly after Halloween during what Shomrim described as a “hate crimes pandemic.”

Antisemitic hate crimes have been an ongoing problem in London all year. Earlier in December, an Orthodox Jewish woman in the Stamford Hill neighborhood of London was stalked and assaulted by an unknown perpetrator.

The suspect followed the woman, shouting “Dirty Jew,” and then snatched her shopping bag, “spilling her shopping onto the pavement whilst laughing,” according to Shomrim Stamford Hill, which provides security and support to London’s Orthodox Jewish community.

In another separate incident, a cab driver shouted “This is the last time I am taking Jews as you kill Muslims in Israel” at a “heavily pregnant” Jewish woman after picking her up from Homerton University Hospital.

In August, a woman wielding a wooden stick approached a Jewish woman near the Seven Sisters area and declared “I am doing it because you are Jew,” while striking her over the head and pouring liquid on her.

The next day, the same woman — described by an eyewitness as a “serial racist” — chased a mother and her baby with a wooden stick after spraying a liquid on the baby.

That same week, Shomrim said, three people accosted a Jewish teenager and knocked his hat off his head while yelling “f****** Jew.”

The Metropolitan Police Service recorded 534 antisemitic hate crimes between Jan. and Nov. 2022, with there were 45 in the month of November, according to the department’s latest data. Data for the month of Dec. is forthcoming.

Antisemitism also became major theme in the United Kingdom’s “national discourse” in 2021, according to a new report by Community Security Trust (CST), an English nonprofit that provides counsel and security services to British Jews.

“Negative media coverage of, or political comment on, Jewish related events may be entirely legitimate, fair, and in the public interested,” CST. “Nevertheless, those debates can encourage antisemites or cause concern to Jews. This is more likely if such commentary involves inflammatory language or the use of traditional antisemitic imagery, or appears to single out one particular object or individual for scrutiny due to their being Jewish.”

Colorado Area Neighborhood Canvased with Antisemitic 'GDL' Flyers

Ziploc bags featuring red, yellow and blue crayons along with antisemitic literature appeared at doorsteps in a Grand Junction, Colorado neighborhood over the weekend. One resident, Megan, came across one of the packages while walking her dog. “I thought it was like a coloring book for kids because it was packaged in a Ziploc bag with crayons… I got to another one, and I saw that there was clearly a really offensive picture, drawing of a Jewish person. I was like, ‘Oh, this is actually really horrible stuff,’” she said.

Upon arriving home Megan found another ziploc bag, and then noticed they had appeared at her neighbors’ homes also. The fliers in the bags featured an antisemitic caricature and claims including “Every Single Aspect of Mass Immigration is Jewish.” Another paper in the bags asked “Who’s Behind? Endless Wars, Hollywood Sex Scandals, War on White People.”

Megan reported the antisemitic fliers to the police and received a dismissive response: “They told me to just throw it away, and that it’s like if somebody had a yard sign that they disagree with or someone saying bad things on the internet, that we just have to ignore it. I tried to say, doesn’t this stuff kind of lead to violence? And if something does happen, don’t you want to know that this is going on? They just said that they couldn’t take a report because there was no crime.”

The fliers are suspected to be the work of antisemitic hate group The Goyim Defense League. The Goyim Defense League (GDL) was responsible for a minimum of 74 episodes of distributing antisemitic propaganda in 2021. In 2022 they have engaged in monthly propaganda campaigns, distributing their hate literature in 17 states. The group’s most active chapters in California, Colorado, New York, and Florida.

Other GDL Colorado activities include hanging provocative banners from freeway overpasses, similar to the recent “Kanye is Right About the Jews” banner hung over the 405 freeway in Los Angeles.

Florida Graffiti Claims Jews Pushing War with Russia

A sign that reads "Dear Jews, stop pushing war with Russia!" written in large handwriting was put up in Miami, Florida this was weekend, according to a tweet by StopAntisemitism last week. 

The sign doesn't offer any explanation for how Jews are purportedly pushing for war with Russia, but the accusation that Jews are either behind the Russia-Ukraine war or pushing for the war's escalation is not new.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) wrote on its website back in March of 2022 that since the war started in February, "extremists and antisemites across the ideological spectrum have used the war as fodder for promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories." 

Furthermore, the canard that Jews have a disproportionate amount of power that they use to manipulate world events, particularly in ways that are pernicious or destructive towards gentiles, is both well-known and quite old as an antisemitic trope.

These accusations have always proven to be baseless attempts to galvanize antipathy toward Jewish people. Nothing about the claim that the sign makes is new.