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Council denounces anti-Semitic public comment after resident’s flag objections at Pure Village
Summary
A Long Branch resident’s public comment included anti‑Semitic statements about Israeli flags at Pure Village; the council publicly denounced the remarks and said the police had expressed concern about the speaker’s behavior.
A speaker at the Long Branch City Council public-comment period on Sept. 24 used the meeting time to criticize Israeli flags flown at Pure Village and made statements that the council described as biased hate speech. Jeff Walstein, who said he grew up in Long Branch and now lives in Tinton Falls, told the council he objected to six Israeli flags and one American flag flown at Pure Village and said he…
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