California DMV issues appalling license plate mocking October 7 massacre

California’s Department of Motor Vehicles issued an appalling license plate that mockingly displayed hate speech over the October 7 massacre on Israel.

StopAntisemitism, a watchdog organization on X, posted a photo on Thursday of a car with a license plate that read: ‘LOLOCT7’. 

The plate appears to be in reference to October 7 – the day when Hamas militants stormed into Israel, killing around 1,200 people and kidnapping roughly 250 who were innocently attending a music festival.  

‘StopAntisemitism is appalled by the sickening display on a Cyber Truck plate in California, celebrating terrorism against the Jewish people,’ the post read.

The account also tagged the DMV and questioned how the plate was able to get processed after it was spotted on a Cyber Truck at the intersection of Jefferson Blvd and Sepulveda Blvd in Culver City.

‘Demand the California DMV recall this license plate that celebrates the October 7 terrorist attack – a vile mockery of the 1,200 innocent lives lost and the countless others scarred,’ it concluded.

The post – which has accumulated more than 2,000 likes – was flooded with comments from viewers expressing their anger toward the tone-deaf customization.

‘Antisemitism is terrorism. Vile and disgusting. It must be rid of and those responsible held accountable,’ one comment read.

The account also tagged the DMV and questioned how the plate was able to get processed to be put on the back of the Cyber Truck

The October 7 attack triggered an ongoing retaliation by Israel in the neighboring city of Gaza that has prompted continuous outrage across the United States

Another tweet read: ‘This mother f***** needs some real karma.’

‘Shameful and disgusting,’ another user added. ‘Rear end them!’

A separate tweeter remarked: ‘Recall the plate and fire the idiot that approved it.’ 

The DMV responded to the post that same evening – issuing an apology on X that called the situation ‘vile and disgusting’ while noting that they were taking swift action to recall the plate.

‘We will immediately strengthen our internal review process to ensure such an egregious oversight never happens again,’ the post read.

‘The use of hateful language is not only a clear violation of our policies but also a violation of our core values to proudly serve the public and ensure safe and welcoming roadways.’

A spokesperson for the department told the Los Angeles Times that the license plate should have never been able to pass the review process and the owner will be notified before it’s recalled – which the driver has the right to appeal.

‘StopAntisemitism was appalled to discover a vehicle with a license plate glorifying the 10/7 massacre of innocent Israelis,’ Liora Rez, the executive director of the organization, told the Times.

The California DMV responded later that night through a post on X that issued an apology

‘With the swift action of thousands of emails from our committed supporters, the California DMV has now recalled the plate,’ she added. 

The department also told the outlet that their next step is going through their database with the intention of identifying any configurations of the same offensive language that may exist on other license plates with the goal to recall them.

The October 7 attack triggered an ongoing retaliation by Israel in the neighboring city of Gaza that has prompted continuous outrage across the United States.

The license plate sleight is one of several anti-Semitic insults and harassment that have been aimed at the Jewish community across the country in recent months.

Hundreds of Pro-Palestinian protestors took over the campus at Columbia University and surrounded two Jewish students who were holding a vigil this past October to mark the one-year anniversary of the attack.

Raging students – some wearing keffiyehs and others masked – chanted ‘Resistance is Glorious!,’ ‘Shut it Down,’ and ‘Israel Go To Hell,’ as loud Arabic music drowned out the sound of Israeli music that was playing for the vigil.

Two young woman wearing an Israeli flag draped over their shoulders stood in the middle of the protest stone-faced as mobs of demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and held up signs: ‘No Peace. Resist By Any Means Necessary,’ and ‘No Pride in Genocide. Free Palestine.’

President Joe Biden bowed his head as a rabbi chanted a Hebrew prayer during somber ceremony in the White House on the one-year anniversary – but he left the event without uttering a single word.

As of December, seven Americans are still being held as hostages inside Gaza by the terrorists, but three of those seven are believed to be dead.

Hundreds of Pro-Palestinian protestors took over the campus at Columbia University on the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attack on Israel

The protestors surrounded two Jewish students who were holding a vigil while wearing an Israeli flag draped over their shoulders

President Joe Biden bowed his head as a rabbi chanted a Hebrew prayer during a somber ceremony in the White House on the one-year anniversary. However, he left without saying a word about US citizens who are still being held hostage in Gaza

On the anniversary of the attack, Biden failed to name the US citizens that still remain captured by Hamas for more than 400 days now during the ceremony, but his administration did release a statement after the fact.

It recognized that 46 American citizens were among the 1,200 innocent people murdered by Hamas that day — and that another 12 were taken hostage. 

In Israel, more than 1,200 people – 800 civilians, 346 IDF soldiers and 66 police officers – were killed when the extremist militant group Hamas infiltrated Israel in the unprovoked October 7 attack, according to the Israeli Ministry of Affairs, ABC News reported. 

Approximately, 8,700 people have been injured, Israeli officials said. 

During the unprecedented attack, 250 hostages – including women, children and the elderly, were kidnapped and taken to Gaza.

A total of 112 hostages were released during a prisoner swap. The largest took place during a ceasefire on November 24, 2023, as per Israeli officials.

The Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health reported this week that more than 44,700 people in Gaza have been killed and more than 100,000 people have been injured, Aljazeera reported.

The World Health Organization reported on October 25, 2024, that some 1,000 unidentified bodies are still buried under the rubble in Gaza, which are not yet included in death tolls.