Lang
12/7/22
A national Islamic anti-defamation group is condemning anti-Semitic flyers found in Coralville.
The flyers, which quote conspiracy theories espoused by Kanye West, were recently found in some Coralville yards. On Sunday morning, Coralville Police alerted local Jewish organizations, who are in-turn spreading the word locally.
Those efforts have caught the attention of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. The group calls itself the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization.
CAIR leaders issued a statement Wednesday saying, “We condemn the distribution of this hateful anti-Semitic propaganda and stand in solidarity with members of the Jewish community against bigotry. Communities across our nation must come together to repudiate the rise of antisemitism and all other forms of hate.”
The Anti-Defamation League says anti-Semitic incidents in the United States reached an all-time high of more than 2,700 last year. The group has also noticed a rise in anti-Semitic content on Twitter since Elon Musk took over ownership of the platform and scaled back enforcement of hate speech.
Police are continuing their investigation into the Coralville flyers.