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| California mayor urged to resign for spreading antisemitic Bondi Beach conspiracies |
| 2025-12-21 |
There are still limits beyond which even Democrats like Richmond Mayor Eduardo Martinez ought not be seen going. [IsraelTimes] Jewish Community Relations Council of the Bay Area says Eduardo Martinez ‘can no longer effectively serve’ after he reposted claim that Hanukkah attack was a ‘false flag’ by Israel.Martinez, …he’s a Socialist, natch… 76, is the mayor of Richmond, California, a city north of Berkeley that is home to one Reform congregation, Temple Beth Hillel. Elected in 2022, he has been a longtime and vocal critic of Israel.It is unusual for a Jewish group to call for the resignation of a local elected official. But Martinez’s rhetoric about the Bondi Beach attack, the JCRC said, was “dangerously antisemitic, deeply offensive, and wholly unacceptable.” Following the attack in Sydney that left 15 killed and dozens injured, Martinez reposted several antisemitic sentiments and conspiracy theories on his LinkedIn page. So he wants his professional colleagues to know this about him, along with whatever he has accomplished as mayor the past two years? Fascinating. “The root cause of antisemitism is the behaviour of Israel & Israelis,” read one since-deleted post shared by Martinez, according to J. The Jewish News of Northern California.Another post shared by Martinez compared the Bondi celebration with hypothetical Hanukkah displays at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, writing that both should be seen as “performative assertions of dominance.” The post continued: “Hanukkah, traditionally a time of personal and private reflection, No, it’s a joyous celebration of having taken up arms to protect our right to be practicing Jews in public without harassment from the government, and with God’s help throughly beating the pants off the the regional military power that tried to force us adopt their beliefs instead. The holiday for personal and private reflection is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, though that is usually celebrated among the community in synagogue — so also not private… has in recent years been appropriated by Jewish Zionist organisations and weaponised as a political tool.”In his repost, Martinez commented, “What are your thoughts?” It’s really rude to tell other people how they should do a thing that is not yours. Also stupid, when you show everyone the breadth and depth of your ignorance. Martinez appeared to issue an apology for the post about Israel on Wednesday, as a backlash grew.“I want to apologize for sharing my previous posts without thinking. Of course we know that antisemitism was here before the creation of the state of Israel,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “As I’ve said many times before, we should not conflate Zionism with Judaism. They are two separate beliefs.” Not to 95% of us, you stupid, stupid fool. And even the anti-Zionist ones still say “Next year in Jerusalem,” to end the Passover Seder, which is a Zionist thing reminding the speaker that the homeland of the Jews is Israel. In another apology on Thursday, Martinez distanced his rhetoric from his role as mayor.“I want to assure everyone that these postings are my opinions (or my mistakes) and mine only. They are not statements from my office or the city of Richmond. If I make a mistake, that mistake is mine only,” he wrote. “Once again, I apologize for posting in haste without full understanding of the posting.” Insincere apology not accepted. You shared it on LinkedIn, you fool. The latest controversy was not the first time the Richmond mayor has landed in hot water over his commentary on Israel.In August, while speaking at the People’s Conference for Palestine, Martinez compared Hamas to a child bullied on a playground and said whether he supports Hamas was a “complicated question,” according to J. “If Palestine were a schoolyard playground, I would be a Palestinian, and that part of me that couldn’t endure the abuse anymore would be Hamas,” Martinez said at the time. While there, he also wore a hat with the letters “DDTTIDF,” an acronym calling for “death to the IDF.” In the JCRC’s letter, the organization also noted that under Martinez’s leadership, Richmond had passed a resolution two weeks after October 7 condemning Israel and “affirming Richmond’s support and solidarity with the Palestinian people of Gaza.” Related: Eduardo Martinez 09/03/2025 Cheers for Hamas, calls to ‘take out’ opponents at US pro-Palestinian conference Eduardo Martinez 08/03/2009 California's Reckoning and Ours Eduardo Martinez 04/02/2005 The Pope Has Died |
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