Antisemitic flyers spread in Boise North End on Saturday; police ask public for help

Residents of Boise’s North End neighborhood woke up on Sunday morning to antisemitic messages on doorsteps, fences and sidewalks.

“Never thought I’d see the day when my neighborhood would be peppered with anti-Semitic litter, along with a flyer proclaiming Santa’s elves are Satanic, all packaged in a bag full of pellet gun ammo,” tweeted one resident.

Plastic bags were filled with paper flyers that included messages saying “the Covid agenda is Jewish” and claiming people who were in favor of lockdowns were “carrying out the will of the Jews.” The flyers also included a list of health care leaders who the distributor believes are Jewish. The bags contained pellet gun ammunition and a second piece of paper with a message misquoting a Bible verse by replacing Jewish-related words with Santa-related words.

“Targeting our Jewish neighbors with such words and symbols should alarm us all,” Dan Prinzing, the executive director of the Wassmuth Center for Human Rights, told the Idaho Statesman in an email. “In this moment the community must decide, do we accept these acts and become complicit in the hate — or do we stand together and condemn, denounce and prosecute the perpetrators? When such acts target one among us, they target all of us. It is time for state leaders to stand up, speak out and set a course for Idaho that does not coddle extremism, feed conspiracy theories, nor encourage a national perception that Idaho is a haven for hate.”

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The flyers were distributed in a plastic bag filled with pellet gun ammunition. SUBMITTED PHOTO