Authorities are investigating another wave of anti-Semitic graffiti along the LA County coastline.
The spray-painted messages such as “the Jew is guilty,” were found from Pacific Palisades to Will Rogers State Park and all the way south to Venice Beach.
“I’m especially offended because we are Jewish and it’s scary,” Gabriel Lerner, a Santa Monica resident, told CBSLA’s Laurie Perez.
The head of the non-profit group "Stand With Us" says it appears that vandals are trying to exploit the fractured political climate and authorities need to take a stand in the area to confront it.
“Not just erase it, not just get rid of it, but to make a statement about how wrong and how evil and how bad this is. So the Jew is guilty of what? Pick any subject and you can apply it. This scapegoating of the Jewish people is historical. It goes back thousands of years and it has caused violence and death,” StandWithUs CEO Roz Rothstein told CBSLA.
In April, similar anti-Semitic graffiti was found scrawled on a sidewalk in Venice Beach.
It was discovered by Daniel Khalili when he was walking down Abbott Kinney Boulevard.
Khalili posted a video to Instagram where he took a can of white spray paint and covered the message, which he says was one of three that he saw on the street. He says he wanted to take matters into his own hands because the City of LA has been too slow to respond to such incidents in the past.