Palm Beach, FL – Police issued citations for “littering” to four men last weekend, including the head of the ‘Goyim Defense League,” for distributing hundreds of antisemitic flyers to private homes in Palm Beach. However they will not be charged with any actual crimes.
Contained in zipped plastic bags, the flyers say vicious things about elected and appointed Jewish officials on issues of gun control, “the COVID agenda,” as well as claims that the media are controlled by Jewish interests.
Police identified the men as Jon Minadeo II, David Kim, Jonathan Baldwin, and Nicholas Bysheim.
“It’s unfortunate that ignorance and hatred are not a crime. Littering and trespassing are,” Palm Beach Town Council President Margaret Zeidman said on Sunday. “At this point in time, there isn’t any other legal or law enforcement action that can be taken by the town, though I find it very frustrating.”
Palm Beach Police Capt. Will Rothrock said that hate crime charges in relation to the fliers are unlikely.
“We do not anticipate that at this time, due to the non-criminal infraction status of the littering citations and the current state statutes regarding hate crimes,” Rothrock said.
Minadeo is a well-known antisemite who boasted on social media last year that he had been handcuffed and arrested for “hate speech” outside the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
He leads the Goyim Defense League (GDL) and its platform Goyim TV, which has distributed antisemitic flyers across the country.
In December, Minadeo announced he had moved the group from California to Florida.
The incident follows similar antisemitic material distributed in West Palm Beach and Boca Raton, in addition to Atlantis.
Last week, Palm Beach County leaders held a meeting to advance plans to combat recent antisemitism displays in the area.
Under a bill introduced by State Rep. Mike Caruso, R-Delray Beach, anyone who projects antisemitic images onto buildings could be charged with a felony.
