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It would include increasing funding by “multiples” for U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program.
The senators cited a study by Tel Aviv University indicating that the pandemic has led to incitement, scapegoating the Jews for spreading the virus, in addition to causing the economic downturn.
The Middle East media monitoring organization launched a new website in response to rising anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom.
Jewish Voice for Peace tweeted a quote that compared Israel to a virus, saying, “The social solidarity we witness nowadays due to the corona pandemic reminds me of the First Intifada when Palestinians were united to resist the other heavy virus.”
It “seems to be part of a broader trend in this instance. The ‘anti-other’—anti-Semitic, anti-Chinese, racist, xenophobic—rhetoric is everywhere,” says Jennifer Rich, executive director of the Rowan Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in New Jersey.
“How dare you slander our efforts? How dare you lie about the brave soldiers of the IDF? How dare you blame them of the spreading the virus? They risk their lives to contain the outbreak for both Israelis and Palestinians.”
U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Elan Carr and U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Belief Ahmed Shaheed will speak, as will congregants.
More than 50 synagogues and some 30 community centers or Jewish schools across the globe were targeted for anti-Semitic attacks in 2019.
Roughly half of those surveyed said they were worried that a person wearing a yarmulke or other display of Judaism would be physically assaulted or verbally harassed in public.
Anti-Semites log in to Yom Hashoah video conference, wave photos of Hitler and shout anti-Jewish slogans • Israeli ambassador to Germany: “This incident ... deserves every condemnation.”
“Far too many Americans of Jewish faith still face persecution,” said U.S. President Donald Trump.
Rabbi Mendel Goldstein walked to synagogue in solitude in compliance with social-distancing measures, held Lori’s Torah and said a prayer for her and the community she left behind.
