Photo from Twitter Several flyers saying that “every aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish” were found in San Francisco, Denver, and southern Florida during the weekend.
The flyers were found on doorsteps throughout the Pacific Heights neighborhood in San Francisco in plastic Ziploc bags, as well as throughout Florida’s Miami Beach and Surfside and the Country Club area of Denver on January 23.
Residents of Miami Beach woke up to vile antisemitic fliers distributed by the white supremacist group ‘GoyimTV’ led by Jon Minadeo II.
Members of this group have been previously arrested on child pornography charges and vandalism of a synagogue (separate individuals). pic.twitter.com/ZlaEcPZFvs
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) January 23, 2022
Local politicians denounced the flyers.
“This kind of antisemitic hatred has no place in our city,” San Francisco Supervisor Catherine Stefani said in a statement. “I’ve been in touch with the San Francisco Police Department and intend to see these individuals held accountable. Our communities have been terrified by the rise in hate crimes, and we must do everything we can to stand against it wherever it occurs.”
Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber tweeted that antisemitic flyers were found “in hundreds of homes.” “As a precaution we’ve increased patrols in our neighborhoods and at religious institutions,” he wrote, adding that “there is no place for this in our community & we will do all we can to make that point clear.”
This morning hundreds of homes in our community found plastic bags outside their homes filled with a hateful anti-Semitic flyer and small pebbles. @MiamiBeachPD is actively investigating to determine their origin. As a precaution we’ve increased patrols in our neighborhoods and… pic.twitter.com/5bx0RvnRoD
— Dan Gelber (@MayorDanGelber) January 23, 2022
And at religious institutions. If you received a flyer, call @MiamiBeachPD @ 305.673.7901. If you have a video camera that might have captured relevant images, please save the images. There is no place for this in our community & we will do all we can to make that point clear.
— Dan Gelber (@MayorDanGelber) January 23, 2022
Jewish groups also weighed in.
“These fliers are an attempt to intimidate and harass Jewish communities around the United States,” the Anti-Defamation League tweeted. “We appreciate the strong condemnation from local leaders and police forces. We must all #ActAgainstAntisemitism.”
https://twitter.com/ADL/status/1486060050124840965
The Simon Wiesenthal Center also tweeted that “lurid Covid conspiracy theories against Jews + Asians proliferate on social media and across communities in USA.”
Similar hateful flyers linking Covid-19 to Jews also appear in Atlanta and San Francisco. Lurid Covid conspiracy theories against Jews + Asians proliferate on social media and across communities in USA. https://t.co/JeD7BtVRa3 via @YahooNews
— SimonWiesenthalCntr (@simonwiesenthal) January 25, 2022
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