Antisemitism
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“This is a gathering of 20,000 Israel supporters of every religious denomination, ethnicity, faith, color, sexual identity and political party. Calling it a racist platform is an attempt to discredit those voices, intimidate people from coming here and weaken the U.S.-Israel relationship,” said Michael Bloomberg, directing his comments at Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
There is a “virus” of hate right now in America, stated New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, acknowledging that “I thought New York would be immune from it.”
“A curriculum based on a narrowly focused and politicized approach consciously and erroneously divides Californians into ‘people of color,’ on the one hand, and all other supposedly ethnic and non-ethnic whites, on the other,” wrote the groups.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) asked the U.S. Department of Education to investigate whether the Center for Middle East Studies at the college has misused federal dollars.
“Anti-Semitism in the South was alive and well,” says Darryl Hill of the 1960s. Adds Jerry Fishman, “as far as we’ve come, I don’t think we’re as far as we should be in respecting other religions and colors. We’re just not there.”
Questions of who should get taught, what students know and how they are learning have come to the forefront as the rise in anti-Semitism continues in North America and Europe.
A quarter of Europeans equate Israelis to Nazis, while one in five believe a “secret Jewish network” controls the world, according to a new survey of 16 European countries.
Heerak Kim, who is running in Virginia’s 8th Congressional District, recently tweeted that the “FBI should investigate US politicians in both Republican and the Democratic party with ‘questionable’ ties with Israel,” among other social-media posts that have been deemed anti-Semitic.
“If a skinhead shoplifts a beer, it’s not a hate crime,” said U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Elan Carr. “Why would you let that kid go?”
The ads feature images of individual New Yorkers, including two women, a person of color and a Chassidic man, along with the message “Jewish New Yorkers belong here. Anti-Semitism does not.”
The prosecutor’s office said a speech that former priest Jacek Miedlar gave at a nationalist march in Wrocław incited hatred.
The security summit took place as anti-Semitic incidents and vandalism continue to be reported in Ocean County, N.J., particularly in the towns of Lakewood and Jackson.
