A popular Venice street has been defaced by anti-Semitic graffiti.
It was discovered by Daniel Khalili when he was walking down Abbott Kinney Boulevard and saw a message reading "The Jew is Guilty."
Khalili posted video to Instagram where he took a can of white spray paint and covered the message last Tuesday, 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.
Khalili added that he has received a lot of positive feedback on Instagram for crossing out the graffiti, and that he has even gotten messages from people in Europe who were surprised that such graffiti existed in Los Angeles. “They didn’t think that anti-Semitism reaches all the way to California.”
The Anti-Defamation League tells the Jewish Journal it's contacted law enforcement about the graffiti and is urging anyone else who comes across anything similar to do so as well.
We are concerned by a spate of blatantly antisemitic graffiti on Abbot Kinney Blvd. in Venice,” Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Los Angeles Regional Director Jeffrey Abrams said in a statement to the Journal. “We have notified LAPD [Los Angeles Police Department] about these incidents. Given the high levels of antisemitic incidents in CA, and around the country, we urge the community to report any and all suspected hate incidents to law enforcement and ADL.”