Southern California City Makes It a Crime to Distribute ‘Hateful’ Flyers

Published on November 15, 2023

The small community of Poway in Southern California has made it a crime to post “hate litter” after finding antisemitic flyers near the city’s synagogue. The Poway City Council voted unanimously Nov. 7 to ban flyers intended to “sow fear, intimidate, and harass,” said Mayor Steve Vaus, who introduced the ordinance. Anyone caught violating the new law faces a $1,000 fine or six months in prison, or both. Hateful flyers were recently left around a neighborhood near the Chabad of Poway, a Jewish house of worship, in the city of nearly 50,000 residents located about 30 miles north of San Diego. It was one of a number of antisemitic incidents reported in the past month in Southern California in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by the terrorist organization Hamas....

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