Sarasota, FL – Holly Bullard’s bike ride Tuesday morning finished with a grim discovery: hateful propaganda at the foot of her driveway in Vamo.
A Ziplock bag weighed down by dry rice held a folded flyer targeting various public figures of Jewish descent, including billionaire philanthropist George Soros and Emanuel Celler, a former U.S. congressman who died in 1981, and blaming current immigration trends on the Jewish community.
Bullard said she was angry upon finding the flyer, feeling violated at the idea of an ill-intentioned stranger getting so close to her front door.
“It’s not social media. It’s not a tweet. It’s something tangible saying terrible things that you don’t think represents your community,” she said.
Bullard also said she checked her neighbors’ driveways and found several plastic baggies with the same anti-Semitic rhetoric.
The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the distribution around the Vamo area, adding that similar material was left in a neighborhood on Siesta Key from Monday night through Tuesday morning.
“We are investigating the incidents and trying to ascertain who might be behind these horrendous acts,” Douglas Johnson, a spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office, said in an email to the Herald-Tribune.
Bullard’s discovery marks the third time this year antisemitic material has been found at Sarasota residences. (February 15, 2022, March 28, 2022)
