After 11 people were killed in a California shooting following Lunar New Year celebrations and antisemitic flyers were sent out over the weekend in Kensington, Montgomery County Council President Evan Glass reiterated that the council has “zero tolerance for hate of any kind.”
“Hate will neither scare nor silence us,” he said during a media briefing Monday. He said the community is committed to ending Asian hate, racism, antisemitism, homophobia and hate in all forms.
Glass said families in Kensington woke up to antisemitic flyers on their doorsteps. In a statement, County Executive Marc Elrich said the flyers targeted several Jewish families and police are investigating the incident.
And just last week, swastikas were drawn on student desks in three separate schools. Both Montgomery County Public Schools and the council strongly condemned the incidents.
“These attacks are meant to instill fear to weaken and divide our communities, but these are generating more support for our Jewish neighbors,” Elrich said in a statement Sunday in response to the flyers and swastikas. “We are united and are showing those who are pedaling hate that these antisemitic attempts at community disruption won’t be tolerated.”
