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On the morning of Saturday, December 18, about a dozen members of the neo-Nazi White Lives Matter group came out to demonstrate against the Anti-Defamation League at its building in Houston. Their appearance was the latest in a series of anti-Semitic incidents across the state in recent months. In San Antonio, this group distributed anti-Semitic flyers and protested outside a Holocaust Remembrance Day event at the Jewish Community Center. In Austin, neo-Nazis painted swastikas and racist slurs on a high school building, held a banner reading "Vax the Jews" on an overpass, and distributed anti-Semitic flyers on the streets downtown.
On October 31, neo-Nazis demonstrated outside the Chabad of Uptown synagogue in Houston and harassed passers-by. That evening a hate-filled former member of the Texas State Guard set fire to Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in the state capital. In November and early December, flyers blaming Jewish people for the COVID-19 pandemic and containing other anti-Semitic statements were left at the homes of residents in Hays County, Harris County, and Fort Bend County.