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Behind the Aegis

(53,976 posts)
Tue Jan 3, 2023, 05:58 PM Jan 2023

Antisemitic words projected onto downtown Orlando building on New Year's Eve

More hateful words targeting the Jewish community showed up on the side of a building on New Year’s Eve, this time in downtown Orlando.

Cell phone video showed the words “vax the Jews” scrolling across the top of an office building on Orange Avenue at Washington Street.

During the brief video, no one in the crowd reacted to the act of antisemitism.

Keith Dvorchik, CEO of Shalom Orlando, a merger of the Roth Family Jewish Community Center and Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando, reacted strongly — yet again.

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Antisemitic words projected onto downtown Orlando building on New Year's Eve (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jan 2023 OP
What is wrong with people? murielm99 Jan 2023 #1
Because a certain segment of haters were emboldened for the past five years. Behind the Aegis Jan 2023 #2
I am glad to hear this from a Jewish person. murielm99 Jan 2023 #3
Sure Seems That Way ProfessorGAC Jan 2023 #4

murielm99

(30,755 posts)
3. I am glad to hear this from a Jewish person.
Wed Jan 4, 2023, 11:32 AM
Jan 2023

If I said it, it would reflect the views of a rural liberal, and we are not a large demographic. I have a tendency to think we are more prejudiced than the rest of the population.

ProfessorGAC

(65,159 posts)
4. Sure Seems That Way
Wed Jan 4, 2023, 12:18 PM
Jan 2023

5 Years unchecked; the genie is out of the bottle.
Problem is, I don't think these people can be shamed into stopping.

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