Five Jewish families left about 600 Happy Rosh Hashanah fliers on cars at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in response to anti-Semitic fliers left in the same station.
The NBC Bay Area affiliate reported Monday that the anonymous fliers at the BART station parking lot in Lafayette, near San Francisco, two days before the holiday were left by members of Congregation B’nai Tikvah in Walnut Creek, California.
“We felt like we needed to respond and show that hate is not a dominant voice,” Rebecca Bauer-Kahan told NBC. “We wanted to put out fliers that show we are part of a loving community.”
The original fliers discovered on Sept. 28 called the Jewish community “serpents” and said Jews should be separated from children. A man wearing a Santa hat had been seen leaving them on cars. They were believed to have been printed and distributed by a local man who runs an anti-Semitic blog that targets members of the Jewish community in Lafayette.
A BART spokesperson told NBC Bay Area that leafleting is permitted under free speech statutes.
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