Report: Anti- Semitic Incidents In US Hit Record High In 2019

[appalachiablue]

Source: Associated Press

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — American Jews were targets of more anti-Semitic incidents in 2019 than any other year over the past four decades, a surge marked by deadly attacks on a California synagogue, a Jewish grocery store in New Jersey and a rabbi’s New York home, the Anti-Defamation League reported Tuesday.

The Jewish civil rights group counted 2,107 anti-Semitic incidents in 2019, finding 61 physical assault cases, 1,127 instances of harassment and 919 acts of vandalism. That’s the highest annual tally since the New York City-based group began tracking anti-Semitic incidents in 1979. It also marked a 12% increase over the 1,879 incidents it counted in 2018.

Jonathan Greenblatt, the group’s CEO, attributes last year’s record high to a “normalization of anti-Semitic tropes,” the “charged politics of the day” and social media. This year, he said, the COVID-19 pandemic is fueling anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. “Anti-Semitism is a virus. It is like a disease, and it persists,” Greenblatt said. “It’s sometimes known as the oldest hatred. It never seems to go away. There truly is no single antidote or cure.”

The ADL’s count of anti-Semitic assaults involved 95 victims. More than half of the assaults occurred in New York City, including 25 in Brooklyn. Eight of those Brooklyn assaults happened during a span of eight days in December, primarily in neighborhoods where many Orthodox Jews live...


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[Behind the Aegis]

1. More to come.

But, until something disastrous happens again, for most, this will be a big "meh". Anti-Semitism is getting a big boost from multiple sectors, some on purpose, some from pure ignorance.

[oldsoftie]

4. Yes. And also getting a big blind eye from many.

Put someone else in the crime & everyone goes nuts.

[Behind the Aegis]

10. That is often the case when the victims are Jews.

I wish it weren't true, but it is.

[oldsoftie]

11. And it irritates the hell out me. nt

[47of74]

9. Even some Democratic politicians provide boosts to it

de Blasio, for instance was in such a big time hurry to be a tough guy that he didn't stop to consider what effects his words would have when he tweeted about a Jewish funeral.

Critics accused de Blasio of singling out the Orthodox Jewish community for censure when others have violated social distancing rules as well.

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said Wednesday he was recommending that the group formally censure de Blasio for his response to the funeral.

“I agree with the Mayor that social distancing is vitally important — and last night’s gathering was not appropriate,” Lauder said in a statement. “But to blame the entire Jewish community is the type of stereotyping that is dangerous and unacceptable at any time, and particularly pernicious while the world is gripped in fear and the worst among us are looking for scapegoats.”

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted that generalizing about the whole Jewish population of New York City “is outrageous especially when so many are scapegoating Jews.”

[EllieBC]

12. De Blasio would never have attacked any other

group that way. And had he the outcry would have spawned at least 50 threads here and half of FB to spontaneously combust. But it was just the Jews so no one cared.

[47of74]

13. If it had been any other religious group he would have been a lot more careful

He should know a hell of a lot better. We've got a bunch of idiots in this open latrine of a country and as we've seen over and over again idiots take what leaders say as permission to act on their Kluxer/Nazi desires.

[appalachiablue]

2. K/R With disgust and more

[oldsoftie]

3. I posted the latest from Brooklyn last night:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142491613

[keithbvadu2]

5. Trump "emboldened" the Nazis

Trump "emboldened" the Nazis

" Michael Von Kotch, a Pennsylvania resident who called himself a Nazi, said the rally made him "proud to be white."

He said that he's long held white supremacist views and that Trump's election has "emboldened" him and the members of his own Nazi group. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fights-in-advance-of-saturday-protest-in-charlottesville/2017/08/12/155fb636-7f13-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?utm_term=.b54a0162fe07

[Igel]

8. Yup. All the Nazis.

Including the African-American Nazis and immigrant Nazis. Stereotypes sometimes wash right over reality.

Like last night's example, with Paulo and Clelia Pinho. " 'You’re the reason why we’re getting sick,' one of the suspects allegedly said, according to police." https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142491613

I could swear I've heard that kind of talk somewhere else.

[McCamy Taylor]

6. Barr has made the haters bold

[hadEnuf]

7. B-but the extremist Right Wing are not a bunch of Nazi KKK scumbags.

Honest!