CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Antisemitic flyers were once again found on Chicago’s North side.
The hateful material discovered Monday was in a different neighborhood.
Residents of the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of West Ridge found antisemitic messages on car windshields along Sherwin near Francisco.
Similar handwritten flyers were placed in Lincoln Park and Bucktown earlier this year. Resident Elyasheve Amster told CBS-2 the messages can be dehumanizing.
“It takes away from the real message that both sides are trying to convey,” Amster said. “We all want peace. We all want everyone to be safe and happy, and, when you spread hate like this, it detracts from that.”
Fiftieth Ward Ald. Debra Silverstein said she learned about the flyers after returning from a trip to Israel and reached out to police and the mayor’s office.
West Town residents replaced the ugly messages with flyers telling people how to report hate incidents to the city.
“This doesn't help things, with antisemitism up close to 400 percent,” Silverstein noted.
That’s according to the Anti-Defamation League, which has tracked more than 2,000 antisemitic incidents since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7.
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