Longview residents in the Old West Side of Washington report antisemitic flyers were found in their neighborhood over the last two weeks.
Longview police spokesman Capt. Branden McNew said the department first received reports late last week, and overall four people reported finding the flyers, some near multiple homes.
McNew said reports were sent to the department’s detective unit, but there is no suspected crime because the flyers fall under a person’s free speech rights.
Longview resident John Melink said his wife found a flyer while walking on 23rd Avenue on Feb. 3, and he found a second flyer in his driveway. He said he later gave the flyers to Longview police.
“It’s a little shocking for this literature being disseminated in our community,” said Melink.
The flyers were found inside plastic bags with small amounts of rice inside to weigh the bag.
NGO StopAntisemitism has identified the bags and the group behind the antisemitic flyers as the Goyim Defense League ‘GDL.’ White supremacist Jon Minaedo II leads the GDL. Minadeo was recently named ‘Antisemite of the Week.’
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One of the locally found flyers shows the Star of David drawn on the foreheads of Walt Disney executives and states the media giant is “child grooming.”
Another flyer lists people, including CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, with the word “Jewish” by their names in all caps.
The flyers also include anti-LGBTQ imagery, Bible verses, and anti-abortion rhetoric, stating, “Every single aspect of abortion is Jewish.”