America has an antisemitism problem and victims cannot be left to fight it alone, rabbi says [View all]

America has an antisemitism problem and victims cannot be left to fight it alone, rabbi says
Eliott C. McLaughlin

The United States seems awash in antisemitism, and it isn’t just the usual suspects like the White supremacists and the avowed hatemongers. Now it’s spouting forth from its superstar musicians and athletes, as well as its politicians, and it appears to be trickling down...

Whereas in past years the backlash following acts of hate seemed to usher forth a respite – a brief break in the vitriol aimed at Jewish people – lately it seems backlash only fuels animosity.

Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, who presides over the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh, where 11 congregants were gunned by a White supremacist four years ago, flatly blamed the country at large.

“Shame on you, America. You let it grow in this petri dish,” Myers said in an interview with Haaretz.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/us/antisemitism-in-america?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_msn