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(THIS IS THE JWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)Anti-Semitic hate crimes are on the rise, up 57 percent in 2017 from 2016, the largest single-year jump on record, according to the Anti-Defamation League. That increase came on top of the rise in incidents in 2016 that coincided with a brutal presidential campaign.
I have personally seen the anti-Semitism, in online insults, threatening voice mail messages and the occasional email that makes it through my spam filter.
If not quite a crisis, it feels like a proto-crisis, something to head off, especially when the rise of anti-Semitism is combined with hate crimes against Muslims, blacks, Hispanics and immigrants. Yet American Jewish leaders the heads of influential, established organizations like the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Federations of North America have been remarkably quiet, focused instead, as they have been for decades, on Israel, not the brewing storm in our own country.
But American Jews need to assert a voice in the public arena, to reshape our quiescent institutions and mold them in our image. And Jewish leadership must reflect its congregants, who are not sheep.
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I have mixed feelings about this article/opinion piece. While it seems to mainly be finger-wagging at Jews on the right, combatting and speaking out against anti-Semitism is not the sole, or even the main, responsibility of Jews. ALL people should be speaking out!
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(Jewish Group) Anti-Semitism Is Rising. Why Arent American Jews Speaking Up? (Original Post)
Behind the Aegis
Mar 2018
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applegrove
(118,778 posts)1. Someone pointed out that the parkland shooting could be thought of
as antisemitic. Shooter had swastikas on his gun(s), was part of a white supremacist group and a few of the students killed were Jewish.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)2. Why aren't more non Jews speaking up?
Behind the Aegis
(53,987 posts)3. An excellent question!
I do know some have. But a few, make excuses for anti-Semitism ever chance they get, especially if the bigot is on the left side of the fence.