Organizer behind weekend antisemitic rally arrested night before in Macon [View all]

Source: WSB-TV

Organizer behind weekend antisemitic rally arrested night before in Macon

By Justin Gray, WSB-TV
June 26, 2023 at 6:10 pm EDT

ATLANTA — Channel 2 Action News has learned that one of the organizers of an antisemitic rally outside of a Cobb County synagogue Saturday was arrested the night before at a similar incident in Macon.

We also uncovered that another of the rally organizers spent a year in prison for the aggravated assault of a Black man in Columbus, Georgia in 2010.

Both men are part of a hate group called the Goyim Defense League.

The Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Extremism believes the group is behind not just the Synagogue rally, but a series of antisemitic incidents in recent months across metro Atlanta.

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