Gov. Pritzker, Jewish elected officials targeted by anti-Semitic flyers in Glenview

“It is unhappy,” mentioned Jill Schwartz, resident. “I do not even know what to say about it, that there is anyone who may very well be so hateful to really feel that method, to really distribute issues like that. It is simply horrible.”

Glenview village officers mentioned the neighborhood is not going to tolerate any sort of hate. Over the previous few weeks, comparable flyers have additionally surfaced in Park Ridge and Niles.

The virtually-identical hate speech makes use of a widely known conservative taunt disparaging President Joe Biden, whereas figuring out Jewish native leaders and elected officers, together with State Rep. Laura Fantastic.

“These anti-Semitic baggage contained hateful rhetoric about Jews and included footage of Jewish elected officers together with me and our governor,” Rep. Fantastic mentioned.

A gaggle of bipartisan state lawmakers in Springfield condemned these answerable for the flyers. The Anti-Defamation League, which tracks anti-Semitic incidents, mentioned cases have elevated by 84% within the Midwest between 2016 and 2020.

“It’s– we consider it is being unfold by a unfastened knit group of people. We do not actually know who they’re, however there’s clearly one thing that is coordinated that is occurring proper now,” mentioned David Goldberg, Anti-Defamation League. “And we have seen a continued rise; this previous 12 months was the second highest complete quantity of white supremacist propaganda which have been distributed within the U.S. since we started.”

Police are persevering with to research whereas that group of state lawmakers talk about probably forming a taskforce to take care of the incident and people prefer it.