Again.
By Mitch Berg
It’s been a year since the Hamas-led massacre of 1,200 Israelis – the worst pogrom since World War 2.
It’s a year that’s made me even more ashamed of America’s foreign policy than the previous 2.5 years of POTATUS and Harris had managed to do.
But it tracks with the same I feel when I look at what the American left has done:
The number of antisemitic incidents in the U.S. has surged over 200 percent this past year, as Israel’s war against Hamas sparked an outpouring of Jewish hatred on college campuses and elsewhere.
From October 7, 2023, to September 24, 2024, the U.S. saw more than 10,000 antisemitic incidents, an increase of over 200 percent from the same period a year before, which saw 3,325 incidents, according to preliminary data released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a left-wing antisemitism watchdog…
…On college campuses, roughly 1,200 antisemitic incidents took place, a 500 percent increase from the year before, when the ADL had recorded about 200 of them. Earlier this year, anti-Israel demonstrations and tent encampments formed on college campuses nationwide, especially after Columbia University’s anti-Israel encampment received national attention and required the NYPD to break it up.
Antisemitic activity and outright advocacy for the extermination of Israel were common around the encampment sites. A prominent example was the Jew-free zones at the University of California, Los Angeles. A judge ruled in August that UCLA must stop aiding and abetting the antisemitic campus activists who attempted to prevent Jews from passing by certain parts of campus unless they disavowed Israel. UCLA initially decided to fight the ruling but quickly pulled its appeal.
Outside of college campuses, rallies across American cities often featured terrorist banners and chants calling for the destruction of Israel. The ADL found that more than 3,000 antisemitic incidents occurred at anti-Israel demonstrations, where protesters chanted in support of Hamas and other terrorist groups.
The potential of a Harris/Walz administration that continues passive-aggressively coddling Iranian aggression seem to be prompting the Israelis to swing for the proverbial fences, to try to resolve the issue before Harris screws it all up, if worse comes to worst.
October 7th, 2024 at 12:34 pm
Not only have anti-semitic incidents in the U.S. overall approximately tripled, but the reports I’ve seen indicate that a huge portion–perhaps a strong majority–of those incidents are on elite university campuses.
I am reminded of working with Russian Jews who emigrated during the Reagan administration, and when I asked one woman why she left, she explained that her religion was printed on her passport, so whenever she went from oblast to oblast, every little twit saying “your papers, please” was free to abuse her.
(in the USSR then, and in Russia today, your passport is not just for foreign travel, but also domestic movement)
October 7th, 2024 at 12:48 pm
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