Antisemitism has spiked. The cause is no mystery.

[Mosby]

Right-wing Republicans have their fingerprints all over the rise of antisemitism in the United States. The latest data make this clear.

“Over three-quarters of Americans (85 percent) believe at least one anti-Jewish trope, as opposed to 61 percent found in 2019,” the Anti-Defamation League recently reported. “Twenty percent of Americans believe six or more tropes, which is significantly more than the 11 percent that ADL found in 2019 and is the highest level measured in decades.” The report continues:

These tropes reference common anti-Jewish conspiracies theories that previous research has shown lead to hostility and violence. … Some of these statements [presented to respondents] view Jews as “clannish,” with 70 percent and 53 percent of Americans saying that Jews stick together more than others and go out of their way to hire other Jews, respectively. Other tropes relate to the concept of “dual loyalty,” with 39 percent of Americans saying that Jews are more loyal to Israel than the United States. Finally, we see over 20 percent support for several statements relating to Jews being too powerful in business and Wall Street.

Much of this sounds like the rhetoric coming from the MAGA movement, and specifically its leader, defeated former president Donald Trump. How many times have you heard Republicans, including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, prattle on about George Soros, a Jewish Hungarian immigrant, as if he is the chief string-puller controlling the Democratic Party? Trump meanwhile routinely demonizes Jewish Democrats for not supporting him and the Israeli government.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/18/antisemitism-spreading-maga/

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[Omnipresent]

1. I don't remember reading about Brian Epstein...

Asking any of the Beatles, if they were Jewish, before promoting them.

[Woodswalker]

2. My parents lived thru WW2 Germany

And always told us beware the flag wavers. We are really starting to look like pre WW2 here.

[spike jones]

4. "Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people

would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches."-Werner Herzog

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. It has not spiked. Republican silence is a big part of why it has not fallen

It has jumped up. It has not yet fallen. It will not have completed a spike until it has fallen.

A lack of Republican condemnation of the anti-semitism is a big part of why it has not fallen.

[Behind the Aegis]

10. "Spiked" is the correct term.

A spike doesn't have to be defined by a fall, it can be, by its very definition, be: a sharp increase in the magnitude or concentration of something., which is what has happened.

A lack of Republican condemnation of the anti-semitism is a big part of why it has not fallen.

This is only partly true, because another factor would be the unwillingness of a variety of people to confront it. Many choose to ignore it or even, diminish it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Jump, RISE, increase, uptick, increment, surge, escalation, gain, upturn:

Spike:



Jump, rise, increase, uptick, increment, surge, escalation, gain, upturn:

[Behind the Aegis]

13. And yet...

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. More people would confront it if Republican leadership confronted it. . . . nt

[Behind the Aegis]

14. Perhaps. OR perhaps if more people, PERIOD, confronted it without exception...n/t

[Joinfortmill]

5. This really pisses me off.

[IronLionZion]

6. Qanon conspiracies are mostly old anti-Jewish propaganda

It is absolutely dangerous how the GOP has weaponized this antisemitism to get votes from hateful idiots.

[bmichaelh]

7. Kevin McCarthy's antisemitic tweet

Current speaker of the house, Kevin McCarthy, sent out an antisemitic tweet during one mid-term

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/13/kevin-mccarthy-anti-semitism-1168809

He denied it was antisemitic.

[Butterflylady]

8. I for one could never figure out

Why anybody of the Jewish faith would be a repug. Still has me in a query. When I was in elementary school we had a Jewish girl in my class. Nobody wanted to be her friend but me. The rest of the kids didn't want anything to do with her because of her faith. That was the late 50's in a red part of PA.

Guess I was a liberal then already. Even then I couldn't understand why people had to be so full of hate.

[Behind the Aegis]

9. How can a Jew be a republican?

Well, simply, we are human and not monolith, despite persistent anti-Semitic canards claiming the opposite. How can Black people be republicans? Latinos? And one group, which is much larger in representation in population and membership in the Republican party, women! How can they be republicans?!

Jewish republicans are a minority within our community, with more Jews throwing their kippah in with Independents, but usually voting for Democrats, and democrats.