(Jewish Group) Antisemitic attacks increase amid Middle East conflict
The U.S. and other countries around the world are seeing a rise in antisemitic attacks at protests and online as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rages in the Middle East.
Human rights groups say some criticism of Israel's actions during the conflict is crossing the line into antisemitism.
States around the country are reporting vandalism at synagogues, such as graffiti of swastikas and pro-Palestinian messages. Marking an uptick online, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday reported finding 17,000 tweets between May 7 and May 14, a period of escalation in Gaza, with a variation of the words “Hitler was right.”
“Some people seem to have trouble distinguishing the State of Israel, which is a sovereign state just like the United States or France or any other state, from Jews because Israel is the Jewish state, about 80 percent of its citizens are Jewish,” Jill Jacobs, a rabbi and executive director of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, told The Hill.
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Shhh...don't ya know, anti-Semitism is all in our heads.
