Vero Beach, FL – Law enforcement officials increased security at a local synagogue while an FBI-task force detective investigates sources of antisemitic flyers dropped “all over the county.”
Several Vero Beach residents walked out of their homes Thursday morning to find rice filled, plastic bags with flyers scrawled with antisemitic, hate-speech-laced conspiracies in their driveways.
One beachside homeowner said around 7:30 a.m., her husband returned from a walk and told her “you’re not going to believe what I (found)” in the driveway.
“They were all over the place,” said Iris Madison. “I’m worried about it, I’m very worried about personal attacks.”
Madison said it was the first time this has happened in her three years at the Vero Beach residence.
Some of the flyers were still seen in yards and driveways Friday, she said.
“Everybody in our neighborhood received them (and) I picked up anyone’s that I could see,” she said. “I just don’t want people to believe this stuff and this hatred to spew, I’d like to see more non-Jews and churches saying we cannot spew this.”
