On Monday, June 26, 2023 at 9:50:14 PM UTC-5, LC wrote:
On Monday, June 26, 2023 at 9:46:54 PM UTC-5, LC wrote:
ORMOND BEACH — Marvin Miller was the fifth of his five brothers to
enter into military service, having been drafted into the U.S. Army.
Sixty-eight years later, he is still serving his country. These days
he doesn't carry a rifle. But the 87-year-old Ormond Beach resident
leads an army of volunteers and benefactors as president of the Jewish Federation of Volusia and Flagler Counties.
Last Monday, someone dropped antisemitic flyers on driveways on
Miller's street. The flyers resembled ones dropped in a Palm Coast neighborhood later that day and in several other cities around Florida
in recent weeks. The Ormond Beach incident came a day after the
Daytona 500, where outside the Speedway three demonstrators in masks
held banners emblazoned with the same propaganda, topped with a "Let's
Go Brandon" headline, all while hoisting two Nazi flags.
The latest demonstrations followed an episode in December when two men were arrested after being accused of placing antisemitic stickers and using spray paint to scrawl antisemitic messages near two of the
city's places of worship.
"It's unfortunate, with the internet the propaganda they can spread
and under the … freedom of expression, they say things that are absolutely not true," Miller said.
Part of what makes Miller's blood boil is knowing that Jews aren't the only minority group subjected to hostility. "If not the Jews," he
said, "it's the Asians. Or it could be the Latinos and certainly
African Americans have taken abuse over the years — they know more
than anybody. And we've suffered the same."
Yes, we must identify and stamp out bigotry where we find it!
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