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Behind the Aegis

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Sat Feb 12, 2022, 03:12 PM Feb 2022

(Jewish Group) How should the media cover the Goyim Defense League?

Should I even write about the Goyim Defense League, and if so, how?

That question pops up every time the group does, which has been often. Last week its flyers blaming Jews for COVID appeared in the East Bay city of Danville. The week before, the same flyers littered San Francisco’s upscale Pacific Heights neighborhood. This week at least one of them appeared in Toronto, tagging along with the anti-vaccine mandate truck convoy.

I know this because each time it happens, coverage follows in the local and Jewish press, and in countless social media posts. A toxic ecosystem has developed in which the flyers feed the press, which brings notoriety to the flyer-makers, who make more flyers.

In organic gardening you call that a closed loop. Of course, in this metaphor, the flyers are the manure. But who are the gardeners?

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