CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Anti-Semitic flyers were left on vehicles at a Chesapeake grocery store's parking lot on Tuesday night.
A 13News Now viewer sent in the images of the flyer, which described Jewish people as devil worshippers and claimed they are controlled by aliens.
Kathrynn O'Donnell said it's something she never wanted to find on her car in the first place.
"It makes me sad that people in this community feel this way about Jewish people," said O'Donnell. "It should never be happening in the first place, and it's the most shocking thing I've seen since I've been here."
O'Donnell said she saw several similar flyers also stuck to the hoods of cars in the Harris Teeter parking lot at Greenbrier Market Center.
The flyers are left unsigned, and O'Donnell said it is unclear who left them behind.
Rabbi Michael Panitz, with Temple of Israel, said the flyer is similar to messages left across Hampton Roads and the rest of the country.
"The flyer you showed me has ties to lies told back in the Middle Ages that were reinvigorated in Czar Russia in the 1890s," said Panitz. "They were then reinvigorated again in the Arab world recently and what place do they have in a free democratic society?"
In the past year, 13News Now has reported on anti-Semitic flyers left in people's driveways and anti-Semitic images spray painted on walls.
Panitz said this rise in anti-Semitic messaging matches the trend seen across the nation, as tensions rise in the Middle East and specifically with the Israel-Hamas War.
"This is not just a Hampton Roads problem, it is worldwide," said Panitz. "While some might want to throw out this propaganda filth, it is better to raise public consciousness: that this is a problem and if enough people know about it, then it will help us to fight it all the better."