Plastic bags with rice and antisemitic messages were found on Carolina Forest area lawns Thursday and Friday morning.
The Community Association Management, CAMS, of Walkers Woods in Carolina Forest was made aware and filed a police report on Thursday.
The Sun News has reached out to both Horry County and Myrtle Beach police departments and has not received any responses.
This is not the first instance of antisemitic notes being found in Horry County.
On May 5, 2022, Horry County PD wrote in a Facebook post that “HCPD is aware of an anti-Jewish note that is being circulated nationwide, which cites conspiracy theories related to Jewish government officials and COVID-19. This note has been found in South Carolina, folded up in plastic zipper bags and weighed down by hard candies.”
The community manager, Michelle Blessing, sent a message to residents in the Walkers Woods neighborhood advising them to throw the plastic baggies in the trash and not open them.
Residents that Sun News reporters spoke with wished to not be quoted. Many of them said that they did not have any concern for the baggies while others said they threw them away without examining them.
“With the world being the way it is, I advise you not to touch the contents of the bag in the off chance there could be anything more toxic than the horrific messages inside,” the Facebook post containing Blessing’s message stated.
It seems the bags were delivered on Wednesday night according to Blessing who also wrote that she was made aware Thursday that “Walkers Woods, along with other neighboring developments, was visited in the middle of the night by some unwelcome individuals.”
It is unknown if the rice has any symbolic value. It is possible the rice was put inside to hold the baggies down.
It is unclear how many neighborhoods were affected, but Sun News reporters saw the most baggies around Walkers Woods of Carolina Forest.
One message contained a list of “protocols” and was titled, “The Jew’s Plan for World Domination.” This list of protocols references a 1903 Russian publication that has played a huge key part in popularizing the belief of an international Jewish conspiracy.
One of the said “protocols” listed stated, “Start fights between different races, classes and religions.”
Another “protocol” said, “Sacrifice people, including Jews, when necessary.”
The Sun News also contacted local synagogues and none of them desired to comment on the situation.
Horry County Councilman for the Carolina Forest area, Dennis DiSabato, said he would contact local police and tell them to “prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.”
“There is absolutely no room for that in our county. It shouldn’t be tolerated,” DiSabato said.
The distributor behind the baggies is unknown and the reason why Carolina Forest neighborhoods were targeted specifically is unknown.
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