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In his 63-page ethics complaint, Palazzo stated that because Moore lives on White Columns Drive, where three of the four signs are located, he stood to be financially affected by the installation and maintenance costs. While Palazzo filed the complaint in an individual capacity, he said he had the full support of the association’s board.

During several City Council meetings, a large number of White Columns residents came forward disagreeing with the HOA action and stated the board did not seek a supermajority consent from the community to purchase and install the signs. At the time, HOAs had the ability to act on behalf of neighborhoods without the petition requirement.

In a letter dated Dec. 1, 2021, Palazzo requested that Moore and city staff help develop a solution to the speeding issue in White Columns and identify locations for the four radar-controlled speed signs.

Also discussed was the need for allyship and standing up for oppressed people who face injustice. Presenters referenced the complacency of the general public and the lack of allies the Jewish community had in the beginning stages of the Holocaust.

The importance of solidarity across faiths and among marginalized groups and the need to publicly reject hatred were themes present throughout the event.

“The ADL can’t be everywhere, but I can be where I am,” one attendee said.

The community event is largely in response to antisemitic flyers distributed in Dunwoody and Sandy Springs in early February. Georgia State House Rep. Esther Panitch, the state’s only Jewish legislator, was among several concerned citizens who awoke to find antisemitic flyers in their driveways.

Panitch said that such events can feel isolating and that seeing so many nonJewish community members show their outrage was comforting.

Dunwoody Mayor Lynn Deutsch, who is also Jewish, said that while she was upset, she was not surprised because similar flyers had been spread in a nearby area months before.

Free speech vs hate speech

The spreading of antisemitic flyers in February is one of the latest in a disturbing trend of increasing acts of hatred against Jewish people.

Multiple acts of antisemitic acts of gun violence have occurred in the U.S. over the past five years.

Last week, a Los Angeles man was charged with two hate crimes after shooting two Jewish men as they were leaving religious services.

In January 2022, a gunman took a Rabbi and three others hostage at the Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. In October 2018, 11 people were killed in a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Months later, in April 2019, one person was killed and three injured by a shooter at Chabad of Poway Synagogue in San Diego, California.

An Anti-Defamation League audit recorded approximately 2,700 antisemitic incidents in 2021, the highest number on record since the league began tracking them in 1979.

Temple Emanu-El project volunteer Rich Lapin said he believes that Antisemitism is a community issue, not just a Jewish issue.

“The degree to which antisemitism is present becomes an indicator of the quality of life in a country and or community,” Lapin said.

Many speakers at the event shared the same sentiment. Several described the Jewish people as the “canaries in the coal mine” of a society. ADL Regional Director Eytan Davidson expressed the need to stand in solidarity

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His involvement with the offshore industry is referenced in his city bio. But he goes further in the affidavit to say he plays a “significant role in pioneering future U.S. government policy related to the granting of offshore wind industry FCC licenses for life/safety communication.”

Moore also says he was able to “solicit and secure meetings as well as receive regular correspondence with high level government officials” prior to the ethics charges. But since his sanction, Moore says he has not been able to secure similar access.

Moore’s professional career was called into question in a prepared statement from the Palazzo camp, alleging that Moore’s activities constitute lobbying and that he is an unregistered federal lobbyist.

In a lawsuit filed with the Fulton County Superior Court, Milton City Councilman Paul Moore, center, seeks to reverse the findings of the Milton Ethics Board from last August, which cited him for three ethics violations.

According to the court document that provides the letter, filed by Moore’s attorney, the request “belies Mr. Palazzo’s later contention that Councilman Moore should have recused himself from the City Council’s discussion on these issues because he had a conflict of interest.”

When asked about the letter, Palazzo said Moore had always deferred everything relating to the HOA to city staff.

“Ultimately, at the [May 2] Council meeting, all of a sudden that did not occur. Everything changed,” Palazzo said. “Basically, city staff, for all intents and purposes, was ignored.”

Resident levies accusations

Councilman Moore declined to comment on his filing. But in his affidavit, he says that the ethics panel ruling caused him financial loss of more than $5,000 in legal fees, damage to his reputation in the community and damage to his professional career.

Doug Chalmers, Moore’s attorney, would not comment on the allegation. However, a few days later on Feb. 27, he filed a sur-reply providing the full definition of a federal lobbyist, whose lobbying activities must exceed 20 percent of their dedicated time over a three-month period.

In the document, Chalmers references the conversation with Appen Media, in which he learned of Palazzo’s media consultant helping publicize Palazzo’s “baseless attacks” on Moore, “without understanding the law and without knowing – or – indeed apparently even caring about – the facts.”