Antisemitic incidents in U.S. hit record high in 2019

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Thanks, in large part, to the left’s sanction and promotion of vile Jew haters like Ilhan Omar, Rashid Tlaib, Louis Farrakhan, Sharia Sarsour etc. But no mention is made in these reports of Muslim antisemitism and black antisemitism — which accounts for almost all the antisemitic attacks.

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Anti-Semitic incidents in U.S. hit record high in 2019, report says

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By Associated Press, May 12, 2020

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-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 chief executive, 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, some of whom were killed.

A 20-year-old former nursing student, John T. Earnest, awaits trial on charges that he killed a woman and wounded three other people during an attack on Chabad of Poway synagogue, near San Diego, in April 2019. The gunman told a 911 dispatcher that he shot up the synagogue on the last day of Passover because Jews were trying to “destroy all white people,” according to prosecutors.
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein speaks at a news conference at the Chabad of Poway synagogue, Sunday,

More than half of the assaults logged by the ADL occurred in New York, including 25 in Brooklyn. Eight of those happened during a span of eight days in December, primarily in neighborhoods where many Orthodox Jews live.

“Objects were thrown at victims, anti-Semitic slurs were shouted, and at least three victims were hit or punched in their heads or faces,” the report said.

Attacks in Jersey City, N.J., killed a police detective in a cemetery and three people at a kosher market in December. Authorities said the attackers, David Anderson and Francine Graham, were motivated by a hatred of Jewish people and law enforcement.

A 37-year-old man, Grafton Thomas, was charged with injuring five people with a machete at a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York. One of the five victims died three months after the Dec. 28 attack. Federal prosecutors said Thomas had handwritten journals containing anti-Semitic comments and a swastika.

The ADL’s report attributed 270 anti-Semitic incidents to extremist groups or individuals. A separate ADL report, released in February, found that 2019 was the sixth deadliest year for violence by all domestic extremists since 1970.

Two men described by authorities as members of a white supremacist group called The Base were charged with conspiring last year to vandalize synagogues, including Beth Israel Sinai Congregation in Racine, Wis. Even before his synagogue was defaced with swastikas, Rabbi Martyn Adelberg sensed that anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. had been increasing as extremist rhetoric migrates from the internet’s fringes to mainstream platforms.

The ADL said it helped authorities identify a suspect accused of plastering white supremacist and anti-Semitic stickers on a display case at Chabad Jewish Center in Ocean City, Md. Rabbi Noam Cohen, the center’s director, said anti-Semitism has ebbed and flowed for centuries. He views the vandalism of his center as an isolated incident, not a sign of growing anti-Semitism.

“Maybe I’m naive, but I hope not,” he said.

The ADL report doesn’t try to fully assess online anti-Semitism, but it does include incidents in which individuals or groups received anti-Semitic content in direct messages, on listservs or in social media settings “where they would have the reasonable expectation to not be subjected to anti-Semitism.”

The ADL counted 171 anti-Semitic incidents last year referencing Israel or Zionism, including five instances in which members of a white supremacist group, Patriot Front, protested outside Israel-aligned organizations to oppose “Zionist influence” over the U.S. government.

“Although it is not anti-Semitic to protest Israeli policies, these protests must be considered within the context of this group’s well-documented anti-Semitic agenda,” the report said.

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spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago

Muslims hate Jews, and that goes all the way back to Medina, but they also hate everyone else. They are copies of Mohammed.

The political left hates free people. They empower Muslims to help them destroy free people. The focus on Jews distracts from their intolerance and hatred of all free people, and suckers a lot of people into thinking Jews are the problem. Their primary objective is to destroy the very idea that free people can prosper. The reason free people are such a threat to them is because the idea of freedom can rise up in the populations they control and strip them of their power. This was the threat America posed to the royalty of Great Britain (and the rest of the European royalty). It’s much easier to defend against an enemy that has to march across your border to strip you of your power than it is to defend your power against a population that rises up against you.

The USA and Israel are nations of free people, and both are obstacles to global governance. Global governance is the dream of the central bankers (and royalty) behind the Democrat Party. The political left empowers the mortal enemies of their primary enemy. This is why the Democrat Party enriches and empowers Islam (and socialists and communists).

There shouldn’t be a Muslim on our soil. The Democrat Party is a domestic enemy.

stephen5970
stephen5970
3 years ago

Its strange how everyone is worried and outraged at anything said about islam or muslims, even when it is shown to be a muslim hoax. On the other hand most ignore antisemitism, attacks upon Jews, and out right hate speech against Jews, which is mostly carried out and promoted by muslims.

Simply compare the number of incidents against muslims versus incidents against Jews, or incidents by muslims against Jews to see who is the actual targeted recipient of hate.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

As more f’ing muslums come to inhabit the Islamic Puppet States of N. America the record for the number of annual antisemitic incidents will be broken with increasingly regularity.

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