A small handful of people stood in front of the Chabad of Cobb synagogue in East Cobb on Saturday, waving Nazi swastika flags and holding up signs with anti-Semitic messages.
A Facebook user named Tamara Stevens was collecting photos, videos and other information from passers-by as the incident unfolded late Saturday afternoon and into early Saturday evening.
This appears to be the second protest in recent days in Georgia by a group calling itself the Goyim Defense League, which conducted a similar event at a Macon synagogue.
Chabad of Cobb is located on Lower Roswell Road, next to the East Cobb Government Services Center and across from Mt. Bethel Church and a branch of the U.S. Postal Office. 
Police officers were on either side of the road and directing traffic. A group of counter-protestors across the road shot videos and yelled, shouting at the pro-Nazi group to “go home!” and threatening to tell their employers.
But the pro-Nazi protestors were undeterred, and made gestures in return.
Their signs said “Every Single Aspect of [a particular topic] is Jewish,” with the topics including abortion, the media, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank and elected officials.
At the bottom of the signs was a Web address to the Goyim group’s YouTube page, with videos including a program called “Saturday White Live.”
One of those shooting videos confronted the protestors directly, including a man holding up a sign saying “Every Single Aspect of Abortion is Jewish,” and called him “an idiot.”
He retorted that “we shouldn’t lie to our children” as he shot a selfie video of himself.
She later went up to a protestor holding a sign saying “Every Aspect of the Federal Reserve” is Jewish. It included photos of past chairs, with the Star of David marked on the foreheads of some of them.
“You’re a Nazi and you’re an idiot,” she told him.
Another protestor held a sign vilifying the Anti-Defamation League, saying it was established to “Protect a Jewish Child Murdering Pedophile Leo Frank.”
The sign included a photo of Frank, who was found guilty in 1913 of raping and murdering Mary Phagan, a Marietta girl, at an Atlanta pencil factory. When his death sentence was commuted in 1915, Frank was abducted from a south Georgia prison and hanged from a tree in Marietta, near Roswell Road and Interstate 75.
It was the first known lynching of a Jew in American history, and local Jewish leaders are still working to get Frank full exoneration.
Updated, Sunday 12:56 AM:
Chabad of Cobb just issued this statement:
We are extremely appreciative and thankful for the outpouring of support and concern from all segments of the community. We have been in communication with Cobb County officials, who have identified these individuals as part of a small group that travel around the country in order to spread their hateful message.
East Cobb has been a wonderful home to a flourishing Jewish community for many years. These individuals do not represent the sentiments of the citizens of East Cobb .
We are working closely with Cobb County officials and the Police Department to ensure the security and safety of our campus. There is no threat whatsoever at this time.
Ultimately, we must remember that the most potent response to darkness is to increase in light. Let’s use this unfortunate incident to increase in acts of goodness and kindness, Jewish pride, and greater Jewish engagement.
Original report continues:
On Saturday, citizens in Macon gathered to to respond to the anti-Semitic incident at Temple Beth Israel.
Temple Beth Israel Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar told the Macon Telegraph that “I’m obviously saddened to find Macon being the unexpected target of these extremists. This organization, they’re interested in air time and attention, but on the flip side, I feel that I must confront antisemitism when it rears its ugly head.”
Chabad of Cobb is one of three synagogues in East Cobb, where anti-Semitic incidents in recent years have prompted a strong response in the Jewish community.
Swastika graffiti was found in bathrooms at Pope and Lassiter high schools, and a neighborhood off Holly Springs Road and Post Oak Tritt Road.
The Anti-Defamation League said the Goyim Defense League—containing the Yiddish term for non-Jews—is a “small network of virulently antisemitic provocateurs” whose “most zealous and visible actors” include some in Georgia.
“GDL’s overarching goal is to cast aspersions on Jews and spread antisemitic myths and conspiracy theories,”
the ADL says on its website.
“This includes frequent references to Jews having undue power through their ‘control’ of major institutions such as media networks, the economy or the government, or disparaging Jews as degenerates who molest children and advocate for pornography, abortion and LGBTQ+ communities.”
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No different than the GOP and LGBT hate. Both are disgusting.
What a joke! These idiots that display the Nazi flag are dumb as fuck. What’s more disturbing is the fact that the East Cobb Jews are so entitled and protected that they aren’t going to do anything. They have their million dollar homes in the Atlanta Country Club on Columns Drive, River Plantation and all the neighborhoods on Lower Roswell Rd. Stand up for the cause! Ariel Sharon would laugh at your asses! The Bulldozer (Ariel Sharon) plowed down Palestinian douchebags houses. Take back Jewish Pride! Beat those fucks up!
Publish the names of the protesters please. As a group they feel stronger. As individual bigots they are weak pieces of shit
Much agreed!
Seriously. Get some closeups of them, put it out there on Twitter, get their names and let their employers know what kind of people work for them. A guy on Twitter, @TizzyEnt is really good at spreading the shame and ID’ing these folks.
What are you going to do Mitch? Dox them? Yell at them? Give them bad looks?
You won’t do shit because you’re unable to do shit. You’re weak and pathetic and can only screech on social media because its safe.
Now please turn and face the wall.
Funny (not really), how we’ve seen such a marked increase in this kind of garbage in the age of Donald Trump. Just as Reagan made it “cool” to be a fire-breathing right-winger, Trump has made it “cool” to be a flaming racist and raving bigot. What’s left for the next landmark Rethugnican, maybe open-ended child abuse, or mass-murder of the poor and elderly?
That is idiotic. The ones spewing hatred are saying half of this country is comprised of deplorable. Put the blame where it lays. The media has brainwashed you into thinking it is MAGA. It is NOT.
I am “brainwashed” — while you’re the one defending Nazis? I’m no fan of one the media has–and hasn’t been doing. But if you had any powers of observation at all, you would know this has become much more common since going through four years of the Trump regime.
Weimar conditions require Weimar solutions. Unlike you shills, I’ll stand with my brethren. You’ll turn on them, report them, tattletale on them- anything! All so you weren’t called an antisemite or racist or bigot when die.
Just remember that traitors are ALWAYS first.
Better hurry Mike, you’ll be late for your Klan meeting.
MAGA isn’t half the country. It’s not even a third. Not all MAGA are racists, but all racists are MAGA.
I understand not wanting to own up, even to yourself, to having cultish devotion to a horrible man who enabled this to become something Nazi’s felt safe doing in this country, but you aren’t fooling anyone except maybe yourself.
You have replied in regard to a despicable and hateful event with hate of your own. Seek help.
So to you, anything opposing your beloved Nazis is “hate”. I don’t think I’m the one needing “help” here.
While getting help, also seek a reading comprehension tutor.
Watch your step on the short bus.
You mean the Trump with Jewish grandchildren? Or was it the Trump who moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem?
There are plenty of reasons to dislike Trump. Inventing reasons isn’t helpful.
I’m not the one who “invented” David Duke’s early full endorsement of Trump. I’m not the one who “invented” early KKK endorsements of Trump. I’m not the one who “invented” Trump’s instructions to his own Proud Boys on 1/6/2021 (“Stand down, stand by”).
And I’d just bet that “some of (your) Best Friends are…….”
Hate is a learned behavior !!!!
It’s sad that we don’t learn from history..
As a Jew this is so disturbing to see this hatred continuing in today’s world… and in our community that we have lived in solidarity for the last 45 years…
NEVER AGAIN!!!
Anybody that proudly or secretly supports the atrocities and beliefs that Hitler, his supporters and followers comitted have a special place reserved in Hell.
You are spot on correct. Jewish people are God’s chosen people.
What is most upsetting is the lack of outrage and response on the part of our so-called community leaders. Where are the voices of our county commissioners, our school board members, our mayors, our city council members, our state senators and representatives, and the clergy of all the houses of worship across Cobb County? We heard all kinds of speeches about fighting this kind of disgusting behavior during election season, but true to form, those pandering politicians are nowhere to be seen or heard once re-elected. Suppose one of those vile scum practicing their “right of free speech” decided to run inside that synagogue during the Saturday sabbath worship services and take out a room full of Jews, as has happened recently in other American cities? Wake up people, it is getting worse every day!!
As a fellow Sabbath observer, neighbor and friend, I stand with the Jewish community of East Cobb in solidarity. Hatred has no place in our beautiful community, and together we can stand strong against this dangerous ideology.
I am not Jewish and this really p***es me off. We should never ever see this hate in East Cobb.
Really I grew up in Marietta. East Cobb is the breeding ground for white supremist
Pfft. Those guys can’t afford to live in East Cobb. They probably grew up and moved out with you.