(JEWISH GROUP) Jewish group demands East Bay mayor resign after posts on Bondi Beach shooting

[Behind the Aegis]

Bay Area Jewish leaders are calling on Richmond Mayor Eduardo Martinez to resign after he reposted several LinkedIn posts promoting conspiracy theories that blamed Israel for the mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia.

Screenshots captured by the Jewish Community Relations Council Bay Area show Martinez reposting content from a Palestinian activist and professor who speculated that an Israeli soldier might have committed the Bondi attack, claiming that "paid actors have a history of carrying out false flag, anti-Jewish attacks in Australia and then blaming others."

Another repost featured an image of a Star of David alongside the caption: "The root cause of antisemitism is the behaviour of Israel & Israelis."

Martinez later deleted the posts.

"I want to apologize for sharing my previous posts without thinking," he wrote in a LinkedIn post Wednesday. "Of course we know that antisemitism was here before the creation of the state of Israel. As I've said many times before, we should not conflate Zionism with Judaism. They are two separate beliefs."

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