ATLANTA — When Esther Panitch found a plastic bag containing an antisemitic flyer in her Sandy Springs driveway Feb. 5, the freshman state representative took to Twitter, venting her anger and making a promise.
“I’m coming for you with the weight of the State behind me,” she wrote.
Similar flyers have been tossed in yards or placed under windshield wipers across metro Atlanta for more than year, a result of a sustained campaign by an antisemitic hate group called the Goyim Defense League (GDL), which sells the preprinted flyers via its website alongside Hitler-themed t-shirts. The difference between those earlier distributions and the one last weekend is that it hit suburban neighborhoods in Sandy Springs and Dunwoody with a large Jewish population.
