The American neo-Nazi group responsible for distributing virulently antisemitic flyers in residential neighborhoods across the country is increasingly active over the border in Canada, police in Ontario reported over the weekend.
Police in the city of Peterborough are investigating after 19 residents reported receiving flyers promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories and white supremacist propaganda, marking the third time in three months that such flyers were distributed to various neighborhoods in the city, the Toronto Star reported.
The flyers are produced by a US-based organization calling itself the “Goyim Defense League (GDL)”, which claims to be alerting white people — whom it describes using the pejorative Hebrew term “goyim” — to a sinister Jewish conspiracy. Leaflets distributed by the group to homes in California, Texas, North Carolina, Idaho, Vermont, Alabama, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Florida and other states have blamed Jews for the COVID-19 pandemic and denied the Holocaust.
Peterborough Mayor Jeff Leal condemned the flyers. “It’s just not acceptable that our brothers and sisters in the Jewish community have been targeted for this kind of vile hatred,” he said.
“For some reason, Peterborough seems to have become somewhat of a hotbed of extremist right-wing sentiment,” Ron Molnar, a spokesperson for the Jewish Community Centre of Peterborough, said in a statement shared with Canadian media outlets. (more...)
US Neo-Nazi Group Takes Antisemitic Flyer Campaign Over Border Into Canada
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