Antisemitism
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“No matter what your views on Israel, using Nazi imagery to describe it is not only inaccurate and offensive, but deeply anti-Semitic,” said Scott Richman, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League NY/NJ.
“Anti-Semitism has no place in #Tucson or anywhere for that matter,” tweeted Mayor Regina Romero. “We have a moral imperative to speak out unequivocally against it in all of its forms.”
“We are using all available avenues from high in the sky billboards to Instagram and everything in between,” said Elizabeth Abrams, assistant vice president of communications for JUF.
The letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona cited hate-crime statistics from a 2019 FBI report indicating that Jew-hatred makes up for 63 percent of all religious-biased hate crimes in the United States.
The Canadian Jewish group Federation CJA and its advocacy agency, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, applauded the decision.
“Targeting Jewish businesses is straight-up anti-Semitic,” California State Sen. Scott Wiener wrote in a series of Twitter posts that included photos of the graffiti and past anti-Semitic vandalism of the store.
Toni Rinde, a Holocaust survivor, said, “We in our museum try to explain hate. We teach how to be an upstander. When you see wrong being done, we teach: Fix that wrong.”
“The children asked, ‘What happens if it happens again?’ What I told them is we’re going to continue to put those messages up,” said Beth Hoch, director of early-childhood education at Har Shalom.
Included in the letter are seven public anti-Semitic posts that Facebook refused to remove, despite requests by the Anti-Defamation League.
It explores the chain of events leading up to the Holocaust and uses personal stories, many of which come from Jews in the Arab world. There is also a special tribute to Arab heroes—upstanders who defended and saved Jews.
Kamau Bobb wrote that Jews have an “insatiable appetite for war, killing” • Anti-Semitism is a “vile prejudice” and has “no place in society,” says tech giant.
They have grappled with response time and collective issues associated with the latest round of violence against Israel, recognizing an increased anti-Jewish backlash, in-person and online.
