Residents are saying enough is enough after the discovery of antisemitic graffiti at Lake Merritt in Oakland.
It comes a year after a massive menorah was destroyed there .
“It was really just shocking, really hateful things said. I can’t. I don’t even want to,” said Zoe Levine, Oakland Jewish Alliance.
It started after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.
The graffiti one is of the latest incidents. It showed up on the last night of Hanukkah right beside a massive Menorah. Last year, it was vandalized and thrown in the lake.
“When it originally started, that was my walking path with my children around the lake, and seeing just the pure vitriol was really too much. And so that’s what motivated me to start doing some of the removal on my own,” said Levine.
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Levine is taking matters into her own hands, but quickly realizing…”It was like drinking from a firehose. You know, there was just so much every day. Just more and more totally unchecked, that I kind of had to get more help.”