ATLANTA — A hate group littered a Brookhaven neighborhood with antisemitic flyers.
Fifteen minutes away, in Atlanta, tensions over the Israel-Hamas war raged on. Hundreds gathered downtown to peacefully rally for the freedom of Palestine for the third week.
Salsabil Salem said she's Palestinian.
"They came over and stole our land and claimed it to be theirs," Salsabil said.
She explained why she was so fired up.
"Whatever happens happens, but this is what we need to do to get our land back," Salsabil said.
Amira Salem, who also said her parents were born and raised, made her voice loud and clear.
"Palestinians were generous enough to welcome the Israelis after Hitler and Germany and the Nazis," Amira said. "We were generous to share our land, take them in, but what they did was they've mistaken that for, 'Oh, welcome to our land' and take our land. It's not your land to begin with."
A group took advantage of the division in the Brookhaven Heights neighborhood. The group has not been proven to be connected to Palestine. Neighbors caught them on their security cameras around 1 a.m. and threw zip-locked bags with flyers in yards.
Rob Piacentino couldn't believe what he saw inside. There were antisemitic, racist, and homophobic messages.
"I was shocked, I really was, because this is not the type of neighborhood where you see that. It's such a diverse community," said Piacentino.
Piacentino has lived there for 11 years and said his neighborhood is normally warm and welcoming. And there is a big Jewish community as well. Brookhaven Heights is less than half a mile from a synagogue, Congregation Or VeShalom.
Rabbi Mark Kunis, with Brookhaven's Congregation Shaarei Shamiyim, said he's familiar with this group. 11Alive has covered four, similar stories.
"They're a neo-Nazi group," Kunis said. "And there's no substance to them. And they spread all lies."
Kuis said when it comes to hate against the Jewish community, to these groups, the truth doesn't matter.
"We live in a post-truth era now. And that's what's most disheartening."
Kunis dispelled what he saw on the flyers.
"It accuses Israel of selling secrets to China, which is ridiculous, and flooding our southern borders with illegal immigrants."
Kunis said Dekalb Police have to protect his synagogue now due to the rise in hate against the Jewish community. He prays things will calm down soon.
"Because if we don't stand up and expose the truth then these anti-Semites and people of hate will be able to go as far as they want," Kunis said. "They have to be stopped in their tracks every time."
Kirby Frank said he called the police when he saw the flyer on his property. He has this to say to the group behind it.
"People can come and they can litter our neighborhood with their hate mail, or whatever, but they're not going to disrupt this community, because we stick together," Frank said.