Flyers bearing hateful messages were discovered at Tucson’s Jewish Community Center just hours after a deadly mass shooting during a Chanukah celebration in Australia, prompting a police investigation and heightened security measures across Southern Arizona’s Jewish community.
The incident reportedly occurred overnight from Sunday, Dec. 14 to Monday, Dec. 15, shortly after news broke of the Bondi Beach attack in Sydney. Jewish Philanthropies of Southern Arizona President and CEO Hava Leipzig Holzhauer said the flyers were spread across the campus of the Tucson Jewish Community Center, or Tucson J.
According to Leipzig Holzhauer, the flyers contained highly derogatory messages targeting both the Jewish community and law enforcement…