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The literature -- which criticizes the Anti-Defamation League, uses a report from the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights to accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, and criticizes the practices involved in the kosher slaughter of meat for human consumption -- was found on lawns in the Quail Run Lane area of North Andover and on Dufton and Shawsheen roads in Andover Sunday morning, police said.
"They are virulently anti-Semitic," Rabbi Robert S. Goldstein of Temple Emanuel of Andover said of the fliers. "This is a typical strategy of an anti-Semite, to take something out of context and twist it. It is very personal and it goes right after the Jews."

Goldstein believes the flier criticizing the ADL may be the result of that organization's criticism of the Mel Gibson movie "The Passion of the Christ," which the league feels portrays Jews in a negative way.

It's not just anti-Semites that take things out of context.
Rabbi Goldstein takes the ADL comment out of it's context in the anti-Semitic flier, to the exclusion of a rant about kolsher practices and also of a blood libel about ethnic cleansing of palestinians by Israel, in order to infer the most tenuous of links to Mel Gibson's film.
The anti-Semitc flyer's most vile charge is a bonafide blood libel, so why the stretch for Gibson?

Andover police Lt. James D. Hashem said a resident of Dufton Road and a resident of Shawsheen Road called police during the day Sunday to report the presence of the literature.

Hashem suspects the leaflets are the work of the Arkansas-based white supremacist group White Revolution, which left fliers on lawns up and down Pelham and Perley Streets in Methuen three weeks ago that implied minorities are more violent and more prone to AIDS than whites.

So, there was anti-Semitic activity in the area before the release of "The Passion of the Christ."
How can this be?

There's no link to the film at all. These guys are your standard Jewhaters of the white supremecist variety. You can find their site easily. To confuse what is likely a straight out and out antisemitic incident with the film is despicable. The Rabbi may be right about these guys capitalizing on the controversy, but he played right into their hand.

BTW, don't you love the investigator, Lt. James D. HASHEM.

Unbelievable.