(Jewish Group) Ways to get involved after antisemitic, racist messages found at central Austin park
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Antisemitic and racist stickers and flyers were found at Ramsey Park in central Austin Tuesday morning, according to several people who reached out to KXAN’s ReportIt. Photos of the stickers and flyers show the hateful messaging was plastered on the playground and put on cars surrounding the park.
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“It’s hateful, it’s awful and unfortunately it’s the latest in a long string of antisemitic incidents that we’ve seen here in Central Texas,” Sharyn Vane, cofounder of ATXKind, said. “As a Jewish person and just as a person who lives in Austin, in Central Texas, I don’t want to see this in my community.”
A link and a name of an organization was seen on some of the stickers and flyers. KXAN has chosen not to name the group, but ADL says it’s a white supremist group founded in the 1980s. Renee Lafair, regional director of ADL Austin, says they believe the group to be very small.
Austin has seen a number of instances where antisemitic and hateful messaging was used over the past month. Anti-Defamation League Austin says this event appears to be unrelated to some of the other instances we’ve seen.
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