ADOT officials say will conduct a full review of customized license plates in Arizona, following reports that a vanity plate contained a term that is considered to be antisemitic. Here's what to know about the controversy.
On Aug. 9, officials with ADOT say they will be doing a full review of custom license plates in Arizona.
One of the letters in the offending word was replaced with the number ‘1,' but the word looks similar to a word that, according to the American Jewish Committee , is an offensive, derogatory term for a Jewish person.The term, according to the AJC's website, is "a highly offensive term used to insult and denigrate people of Jewish faith or ethnicity that is widely considered to be a form of hate speech.
According to the AJC, one theory on how the term came to be can be tracked back to the Yiddish word for ‘circle,' as a reference to how Jewish immigrants signed their entry forms at Ellis Island upon arriving to the United States.
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