Several Raleigh residents woke up to antisemitic flyers in their driveways on Sunday
Several Raleigh residents woke up Sunday morning to find antisemitic flyers in front of their homes.
One man told The News & Observer that he noticed the flyer in his Hickory Hills driveway after returning from a morning drive and found they had also been distributed to the neighboring houses. Another woman found flyers during a walk in Fairfax Hills, WRAL reported.
On the social media site Nextdoor, another neighbor posted a photo of the flyers gathered in a trash bag.
“Some amazing folks went to help clean up this trash,” she wrote.
The flyer links to a website run by the Goyim Defense League, a “small network of virulently antisemitic provocateurs,” according to the Anti-Defamation League. Nationwide, the group has spread antisemitic content online and in public.
This is not the first time antisemitic content has been found in Raleigh neighborhoods. Last August, Rabbi Eric Solomon of Beth Meyer Synagogue found flyers with “Holocaust imagery” that he called “deeply upsetting.”
Though the Raleigh Police Department was informed of the 2022 flyers, spokesman Lt. Jason Borneo told The N&O that they had stopped investigating the incident because “they did not rise to the level of a crime.”
Several months before that, enraged locals scrubbed a spray-painted swastika from a pedestrian bridge over Interstate 540.
A recent ADL report found that in North Carolina, antisemitic incidents have surged since 2020. While 13 of these incidents were reported in 2020, nearly 39 were reported in 2022, a 200% increase.
This story was originally published August 6, 2023 at 12:47 PM.
