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Dozens of Atlanta residents in mostly Jewish neighborhoods woke up to antisemitic fliers Sunday [1]

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Date: 2023-02-06  

x To be clear, it was many Jewish families in neighborhoods in Fulton and DeKalb counties. Previously it has been Cobb. pic.twitter.com/GbdGoSjcgX — Esther Panitch (@epanitch) February 5, 2023

Panitch’s bill has been supported by Republican House Majority Leader Chuck Efstration, a lawmaker who has called repeatedly for the Georgia Senate to pass HB 426—a hate crimes bill he authored.

Panitch told The Washington Post that finding the flier was “unsettling, aggravating — many people are afraid.” She added that it could be “too easily dismissed as a one-off, but stuff like this has been going on for months. But now they put it on my driveway, so I’m going to use my public megaphone, and people are going to know about it.”

Eytan Davidson, the regional director for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Southeast, says, “The trend of fliers like this being distributed is a longtime tactic of white supremacists and is happening with great frequency across the country … In fact, last year, incidents like this occurred roughly 150 times in Georgia alone.”

According to the ADL, the fliers appear to be connected to the Goyim Defense League, a group of people connected by antisemitism. The same group that hung banners over a Los Angeles freeway in October that read, “Kanye was right about the Jews,” the Post reports.

The AJC reports the fliers could also be connected to the White Lives Matter group.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp tweeted, “This kind of hate has no place in our state,” and committed state law enforcement to help in local police investigations.

x This kind of hate has no place in our state and the individuals responsible do not share Georgia’s values. If needed, state law enforcement stands ready to assist @SandySprings_PD and @DunwoodyPolice in their investigations.



We will always condemn acts of antisemitism. https://t.co/pgtEf6i8Mj — Governor Brian P. Kemp (@GovKemp) February 5, 2023

Panitch tells the AJC that critics of her hate crime measure have said it “isn’t the right one” but have, up until now, offered no alternatives.

She says simply to them, “Get out of our way.”

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