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On September 22, 2025, surveillance cameras captured a man drawing a swastika on the sidewalk outside El Rodeo Elementary School in Beverly Hills just hours before Rosh Hashanah. The hateful symbol was removed immediately and the Beverly Hills Unified School District alerted parents while local police opened an investigation. This kind of intimidation near a campus is intolerable and deserves swift, transparent action from law enforcement.
Callous acts like this should unite Americans against antisemitism, but too often they become political footballs. Many of us were left scratching our heads at the uneven volume of outrage — thorough local coverage exists, yet national outlets that explode over other stories have been oddly muted. Whether that silence is calculated or careless, it has real consequences: it signals which victims get empathy and which incidents get used as narrative fodder.
Let’s be clear — hate has no place in our communities, period. But conservatives also have seen a pattern where context and identity get weaponized to fit a preferred storyline, and that double standard erodes trust in our institutions. When footage shows a suspect whose appearance doesn’t fit the prevailing media narrative, we should demand the same standards of verification, condemnation, and prosecutorial vigor that would apply any other time.
Parents in Beverly Hills and across the country have a right to expect schools to be sanctuaries, not stages for intimidation. Public safety around religious holidays should not be political theater; it requires real policing, better deterrence, and accountability for whoever is responsible. If community groups claim to have identified a suspect and have shared information with police, that leads to an obvious follow-through: arrest, charge, and prosecution if the evidence supports it.
It’s also worth calling out the performative responses we see from some public officials and media figures. Condemnation is necessary, but it is not sufficient — it must be paired with action that protects students, prosecutes wrongdoing, and prevents copycat behavior. Conservatives believe in law and order and in protecting religious liberty; that means backing up our words with resources and enforcement.
Americans of all backgrounds should demand equal treatment under the law and equal coverage in the press. If this were handled with the urgency we expect when the roles are reversed, the moral credibility of our institutions would be restored a bit. Until then, citizens must keep pressure on police, school boards, and the media to do the job they were elected or hired to perform.
We stand with our Jewish neighbors who were targeted by this despicable act and with every parent who wants their children safe. Hold the authorities to account, insist on fair, nonpartisan investigations, and stop letting politics decide whose suffering matters. Patriots of all stripes must refuse to accept a two-tier system of justice or a press that picks favorites when it suits a narrative.
