'We as a City stand by our Statement Against Hate, and strongly condemn all acts of antisemitism,' said Mayor Rotering. “As Elie Wiesel famously noted in his 1986 Nobel Prize acceptance speech ‘Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.’ We will not be silent. This is hate.”
A group of residents in Highland Park woke up Thursday morning to find antisemitic propaganda in the form of leaflets on their front driveways. They were distributed on Yom HaShoah--Holocaust Remembrance Day.A group of residents in Highland Park woke up Thursday morning to find antisemitic propaganda in the form of leaflets on their front driveways. They were distributed on Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day.
"Frankly, it's disgusting, and it needs to stop," Rotering said. "To have this kind of garbage, disgusting statements thrown on peoples' driveways--on today of all days--is particularly painful." The Anti-Defamation League is well familiar with the group advertising itself on the fliers — a group known for similar stunts, and for operating an online video platform that streams antisemitic content.
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