On the morning of July 4, Amy left her house for work and found a ziplock bag in her driveway. Inside the bag she could see a pair of pennies and a sheet of paper folded neatly in half. Printed along the top was a blue Star of David, a red pentagram and a headline in all-caps: "EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF THE COVID AGENDA IS JEWISH."
Beneath the headline was a list of people, including CDC officials, politicians and business executives, all of whom were identified (or mis-identified, in some cases) as either Jewish or "Shabbos goy," a Yiddish term for a non-Jew employed by Jews for certain tasks.
"My first thought was, 'Oh my god, these people are morons. What idiots,'" Amy told the Outpost in a phone interview. But after she thought about it for a moment, she began to wonder whether she'd been specifically targeted. While she considers herself agnostic, Amy is of Ashkenazi heritage and on the Chabad of Humboldt mailing list. (We're using a pseudonym to protect her identity.
When Amy's friend took her dog for a walk later that day she spotted two more of the antisemitic flyers that had been places in baggies and tossed in front of people's homes. Other Arcata residents have since posted photos of the hateful material on social media.
"Went outside today and found ANTISEMITIC propaganda all over my neighborhood," reads one Instagram post. "Feeling very hurt, scared and confused [right now]."
Photos in the post showed the same distribution method: two flyers, each carefully inserted in a plastic bag along with a pair of pennies, presumably to weigh them down. Printed in the same format as the one Amy found, one claims, "Every single aspect of the Biden administration is Jewish" while another says, "Every single aspect of Disney child grooming is Jewish."
Teresa Drenick, deputy regional director for the Central Pacific region of the Anti-Defamation League, is quite familiar with the spread of these bigoted baggies.
"We are seeing that happen all over California and pretty much all over the United States at this point," Drenick said when reached by phone on Wednesday. The organization behind the flyers has been identified and extensively researched by the ADL, but the Outpost has chosen not to identify it or the people behind it since they so clearly crave such attention and use it to recruit other lost souls into their hate-filled ideology.
"The stunt is the work of a cowardly group that espouses white supremacist themes and Holocaust denial," Drenick said. "It's known to focus its hatred and vitriol toward the Jewish community and other marginalized communities - oftentimes the LGBTQ-plus community as well."
Based in Northern California, the group is "small and fringe," a loosely knit group of individuals that has nevertheless managed to distribute its materials in communities from Florida to Texas, California and beyond, according to reports compiled by the ADL. The group's aim, Drenick said, is to intimidate and sow fear in the community.
The ADL conducts an annual audit of antisemitic incidents for each of its regional divisions as well as the country as a whole, and Drenick said the numbers have never been higher. The organization's Central Pacific region, which includes Northern California, Utah and Hawaii, saw a 27 percent increase last year, seeing 367 reports of antisemitic incidents including harassment, vandalism and assault.
Here in Northern California, the Jewish community encountered "a persistent drumbeat of hatred," Drenick said. Last year there were 70 reported incidents of antisemitism in the region, including 28 instances of vandalism and 42 cases of targeted harassment, both online and in person - "everything from swastikas being spray-painted on the walls of places of worship and schools to people being directly targeted."
Nationwide, the organization documented 2,717 antisemitic incidents last year - the highest figure on record since the ADL started tracking antisemitic incidents in 1979.
The flyer Amy received is indicative of one aspect within this larger trend - a rise in antisemitic reactions to some of the public health measures implemented in response to the COVID pandemic. By way of example, Drenick pointed to recent incidents that took place in our NorCal neighbor, Siskiyou County.
Last summer, four of that county's supervisors participated in a public demonstration protesting the state's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. A number of attendees wore yellow Stars of David, which Jews were forced to wear in Nazi-occupied Europe.
"The exploitation of the yellow star as political prop is entirely inappropriate," Drenick said. The comparison between a measure aimed at protecting public health and the horrors of Holocaust serves to minimize those atrocities and is itself an form of antisemitism, she added, noting that swastikas have likewise been invoked by many protesting public health measures.
Amy wound up reporting the flyer in her driveway to the Arcata Police Department, which Drenick said is a good idea. While the distribution of hate speech is not in itself a crime (unless there's a specific incitement to violence), such incidents are still worth reporting.
"Any police agency wants and needs to be very aware of hate-related activity taking place in the community it protects," Drenick said.
An Arcata police officer stopped by Amy's house on Tuesday to collect the flyer and take a report. Amy's neighbor captured security camera footage of the car she believes was driven by the culprit, and she turned that over to the police as well.
A message at the bottom of the flyer says, "These flyers were distributed randomly without malicious intent." It may well be true that they were randomly distributed, but Amy isn't buying the claim about an absence of malicious intent.
"It's a little threatening," she said. "It's meant to make people like me feel unwelcome and unsafe."
Arcata Police Chief Brian Ahearn told the Outpost via email that the agency is in the early stages of an investigation into the flyers and "evaluating if there is a criminal nexus."
Drenick said that in addition to notifying law enforcement, anyone who receives such material should report it to the ADL via its website to help the organization track such actions.
Amy said it's important for the public to be made aware of such things, too.
"The whole thing is so sad and really embarrassing, to be somebody who does that - it's just so cringey and lame, but it's sad," she said. "I feel like it's worth making a big fuss and reporting it because people should know this is out there. Even in Humboldt there are people who are both stupid and hateful."
Source: Antisemitic Flyers Distributed in Arcata; APD Investigating
See, also: 'The Monetization of Hate': US Neo-Nazi Group Distributes Antisemitic COVID-19 Propaganda Across The Country During Weekend Campaign - which identifies the source of this material as GOYIMTV.tv.
(Editor's note: We offer the following as a response to the Lost Coast Outpost's article, above.
We are Jewish on our mother's side. We reviewed the article and the photograph and we do not see anything anti-Semitic.
We don't think there are even any Semites in Arcata - Ashkenazis are not Semites, that's like a white person saying, "You don't like me because I'm black". We think the Lost Coast Outpost is lying to us. Or maybe to themselves.
Note that this entire article is based upon exactly one person's perceptions - someone named 'Amy', who won't share her last name (which is probably hyphenated) because then we would know that she refuses to assimilate into the community which she claims to be representing ... and that, in reality, she, and the Lost Coast Outpost, only represent a tiny, tiny percentage of the entire Arcata community.
The Lost Coast Outpost quotes "Teresa Drenick, deputy regional director for the Central Pacific region of the Anti-Defamation League", not once, not twice, not three times, no, they quote her eleven times - she practically wrote the article for them.
It can be asked: Is the Lost Coast Outpost just a local outlet for Anti-Defamation League press releases? They sure act like it.
The Anti--Defamation League, itself, has no problem defaming anyone it thinks stands in its way. For this reason among many others, we think the ADL should be actively ignored.
If we recall correctly, San Francisco prosecuted the ADL for stealing police files in 1993; just search for "SFPD Tom Gerard".
What we see is a statistical analysis that establishes that a statistically anomalous number of people who all stridently identify as Zionists - a political party, not a religious faith - seem to have engaged in regulatory capture and seized control of at least a portion of the United States Government - that portion related to the COVID infection and our response.
All real Americans would naturally be concerned about the possibility of their government being seized, by deceit.
Also: all real intellectuals would be intrigued by such a statistical anomaly, and want to know its cause. Jewish people claim to be intellectuals. Why are they not interested in this anomaly? Either their claim to be intellectually inclined is a false claim, or they do not want this anomaly investigated. Can anyone think of another explanation?
Logic leads to the conclusion that anyone not concerned about the possibility that the United States Government has been taken over by a foreign political party hostile to the best interests of the majority of North Americans, when presented with evidence that the government has been captured by hostile entities, is, possibly, a member of that party.
From this we can infer that the Lost Coast Outpost, itself, is also possibly in the hands of Zionists, and we can now take additional care when interpreting the contents of the website, now that we know that it is possibly being used to present a slanted view of events and people - such as, for instance, the possibly twisted perspective the website presented regarding Karen Paz-Dominguez, or Brett Watson (neither of whom are 'Jewish'), whom the Lost Coast Outpost attacks, unrelentingly.
Zionists going and accusing everyone they don't agree with, of hating them, is mentally and emotionally imbalanced. If there is hatred here, it is within these Zionists - not us.
Amy says she is an Ashkenazi. But she thinks she is a Semite. Amy also says she does not believe in God. But she thinks she is a Jew. Riddle me this: How can the word 'Jew' have any meaning without God? Amy seems very confused.
It is possible that Amy needs to see a cognitive therapist. So does anyone at the Lost Coast Outpost who agrees with Amy. These people need to explore their fear and hatred of their neighbors, and try to figure out why they cannot handle their neighbors' freely expressed thoughts and feelings without melting down and demanding special treatment. They are the problem. Not the rest of us.
Political self-expression is a thing, here, in the United States, and we aren't going to stop because there are Zionists here. If these Zionists don't like it, they can use that other passport that they pretend they didn't apply for, and move to their other homeland. Problem solved.
We don't hate Zionists. We just want to know why it's so important to them that they win every argument, that they are willing to lie, cheat, and sabotage their opponents, with false arrests.
Why is it so important for them to appear to be smarter than everyone else? They're not, you know.
Arcata is boasting to everyone that it is going to be the new home of the Humboldt Polytechnic University ... but the city can't even handle a simple statistical analysis, or even a piece of paper saying it's OK to be white, without attacking its author and calling him or her names. How does this narrative end?
If we allow these attacks upon our citizens' right to free speech to continue, my dear Arcata, there will be no Humboldt Polytechnic University. Intellectuals demand free speech - even if American citizens don't. Our Founders were intellectuals. Not Zionists!
It's a simple statistical question. How does a tiny, tiny splinter community that constitutes less than TWO PERCENT of the population end up in control of all the money and power - over, and over, and over?
As Sherlock Holmes said to his companion, Doctor Watson: "When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
There is only one answer. THEY CHEAT.
The author of this pamphlet leaves it to the reader to figure it out, but we're just going to provide the answer. This country is in the hands of liars and cheaters. We all know this to be true. The evidence is everywhere around us.
Anonymous pamphleteering to bring issues to the attention of the public is an ancient American tradition that goes back hundreds of years, to the Founders of this great nation.
The anonymous person who risked their liberty to bring this imbalance to the attention of his or her fellow citizens is a hero and deserves respect for their courage and willingness to act. Not arrest and persecution.
Maybe the Arcata Police Department should change their uniform, and start wearing red coats, imported from Great Britain.
Free tip for free speech activists: Wear gloves and masks. Tom Paine would approve.
Food for thought.)
