The United States has witnessed an alarming surge in antisemitic incidents since the Simchas Torah massacre on October 7, with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reporting figures reaching the highest levels ever recorded since the organization began tracking antisemitism in the country in 1979.
Between October 7 and December 7, the ADL recorded a total of 2,031 antisemitic incidents. This number not only marks the highest for any two-month period but also represents a staggering 337% increase compared to the same timeframe in 2022. The incidents reported encompass a wide range of offenses, including 40 cases of physical violence, 749 verbal attacks, 337 instances of vandalism, and 905 rallies featuring antisemitic speech, support for terrorism, or anti-Zionism. Notably, the ADL categorizes anti-Zionism as a form of antisemitism, defining it as denying the Jewish right to self-determination.
The data further reveals that Jewish institutions have not been spared, with 250 incidents targeting synagogues and campus Hillels. Additionally, there have been 400 incidents reported on college campuses.
“This terrifying pattern of antisemitic attacks has been relentless since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7, with no signs of diminishing,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said. “The lid to the sewers is off, and Jewish communities all across the country are being inundated with hate. Public officials and college leaders must turn down the temperature and take clear action to show this behavior is unacceptable to prevent more violence.”
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That’s Terrifying
The ADL is not an honest broker even (especially) when it comes to seeing and calling out antisemitism. They seem to only notice it when it is to the Right of their favorite, and aligned, political party. Coincidence?
Skinheads with swastikas making German-style salutes are NOT a problem – and no one except YWN seems to see a connection between them and the current anti-Semitism problem.
In fact the “Right”, both moderate and fanatical, are on our side (even if some do so out of anti-Muslim prejudice). The Christians may have a not secret agenda to convert us (and everyone else), but their motivation reflects the fact that the current anti-Semites, not unlike the German National Socialists of 90 years ago, are anti-religious. Even if we are the primary target today, they know that Christianity is the next target of the American secular left.
ADL and the rest of the “mainstream” Jewish establishment have been hard core left wingers for over a century, usually with socialist roots. The trauma they have incurred is quite great since they just discovered that everything they believed about America is probably wrong, and in spite of their assimilationist credentials in the eyes of their brothers on the left, in turns out they are considered just as despicable as if they had yarmulkes and shietels and kept Shabbos and rejected pork cheeseburgers. For most YWN readers their is less trauma since we always understood we existed on the margins of American society, and have always had to deal with prejudice (even if much of it came from assimilated Jews).
B’vah’chah’shah, may I as a goy suggest that all Jews do More Talmud Torah (MTT), More Davvening (MD) & More Chessed (MC) each day.
A goy
Gerry Mullen