Police were called to a synagogue in Marietta, Georgia on Saturday night after a Neo-Nazi group began protesting and waving swastikas outside a synagogue.
Around a dozen members of the ‘Goyim Defense League’, a hate group which accuses Jewish people of conspiring to control the world, staged their demonstration outside the Chabad of Cobb County synagogue, in East Cobb.
Some held signs declaring that ‘Every Single Aspect’ of abortion, the media, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank and elected officials is Jewish.
At the bottom of the signs was a Web address to the Goyim group’s YouTube page, with videos including a program called ‘Saturday White Live.’
Around a dozen protesters stood outside a synagogue in Marietta, Georgia, on Saturday evening
The demonstration was staged by a well known hate group, the Goyim Defense League
When asked why they were there, one man said they were exercising their right to freedom of speech
Stewart Levy said it was terrifying, and the police refused to move the Neo-Nazis on.
‘Anti semitism at my synagogue,’ he wrote on Facebook. ‘The most frightening thing I have seen in my 65 years.
‘It’s very hard to believe that this is happening in Cobb County. The police are allowing it because it is ‘free speech’.’
Some stood on the other side of the road and yelled at the Neo-Nazis to go home.
Police kept the two sides separate.
One of the Neo-Nazis, Jon Minadeo II, from West Palm Beach, Florida, told Channel 2 Action News they were ‘exercising our first amendment right.’
The group staged a similar protest in Macon on Friday night, and Minadeo was arrested for disorderly conduct and public disturbance.
They say he kept shouting obscenities through a bullhorn after he was asked to stop.
He was released on Saturday on a $910 bond, 13WMAZ reported.
The Neo-Nazis gathered on Saturday in front of the Chabad of Cobb County, in East Cobb
The Anti-Defamation League says Minadeo leads the group and travels across the country to spread his views.
They describe the group as a ‘small network of virulently antisemitic provocateurs’, whose ‘most zealous and visible actors’ include some in Georgia.
‘GDL’s overarching goal is to cast aspersions on Jews and spread antisemitic myths and conspiracy theories,’ the ADL says on its website.
‘This includes frequent references to Jews having undue power through their ‘control’ of major institutions such as media networks, the economy or the government, or disparaging Jews as degenerates who molest children and advocate for pornography, abortion and LGBTQ+ communities.’
Eytan Davidson, the southeast regional director of the ADL, told Channel 2 Action News that anti semitism was on the rise in the region.
‘This is part of a disturbing trend that we have seen on the rise for over five years now,’ he said.
‘From 2021 to 2022, we saw more than 60 percent increase in antisemitic incidents in the state of Georgia.
‘Nationally, we are seeing antisemitic incidents at an all-time record high in 2022.’
Earlier this month, it emerged that a new Neo-Nazi group had been formed in the south, named Order of the Black Sun.
The group staged a swastika-waving protest outside Disneyland, to the horror of many families visiting.
The group of Neo-Nazis who protested outside Disney World were from a newly-established hate group identified as the Order of the Black Sun and the protest was their first
The group protested an entry way into the iconic Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida
ADL researcher Ben Popp told local media that the group – also known as ‘OBS’ – is a white supremacist network that formed just months ago and that the demonstration outside the children’s theme park was its first.
Popp said the hate group is ‘well known’ to the ADL and that it’s comprised of individuals who have ‘been involved in other white supremacist groups and organizations in the state of Florida for the past couple of years.’
Pictures and videos posted to Twitter by a Florida state representative showed about 15 protesters waving the Nazi flag and saying ‘Go back to Mexico’.
The identification of those involved comes after Disney heiress Abigail Disney said her grandfather would be ‘spinning in his grave’ at the sight outside the famous park.
Popp told the Orlando Sentinel that Florida hate groups often work together to ‘make themselves appear bigger than they are to intimidate communities.’
The ADL’s website states that the name ‘Black Sun’ is a reference to a Nazi symbol often referred to as the ‘sonnenrad’ or the ‘sunwheel.’
The logo, which looks like a wheel with jagged spokes, was used by the Nazis ‘in their attempt to invent an idealized ‘Aryan/Norse’ heritage, the website states.
