One of the flyers handed out in Boulder. Image by Twitter

(JTA) — A group of men wearing large white kippas and tallesim handed out fliers promoting Holocaust denial and hung up cards bearing anti-Semitic canards on a pedestrian mall in Boulder, Colorado.

The fliers handed out at Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall by the men who appeared to be posing as Jews claimed the Holocaust was “impossible.” The men also hung notes on index cards around the mall that claimed “Academia is dominated by Marxist Jews,” Jews run the porn industry,” and “Jews ran the Atlantic slave trade,” the Daily Camera newspaper reported.

The men livestreamed their actions, according to the report.

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As of Sunday morning, no reports were filed with police about the fliers, Boulder police told the newspaper.

HAPPENING RIGHT NOW: Nazis are posing as Hasidic Jews on Pearl Street in Colorado, Boulder, right near the Wells Fargo. pic.twitter.com/oLXBuCJAUf

— ✡️?️‍? (@koshersemite) November 3, 2019

Went down to Pearl St. to see whatsjust heard the words “we jews did 9/11 and we’re sorry!” being shouted from the van but didnt see them. I found this flyer, though. pic.twitter.com/SfYcTUr8S2

— ✡️?️‍? (@koshersemite) November 3, 2019

Found some more of those index cards pic.twitter.com/17MKzuKWit

— ✡️?️‍? (@koshersemite) November 3, 2019

Boulder was a target of anti-Semitic propaganda in 2018, with the Anti-Defamation League recording 17 such incidents that year. A Jewish population survey of the Denver/Boulder metropolitan area from 2007 — the last time there was such a survey — found that 117,000 people live in Jewish households there.

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