(Jewish Group) Former ADL Director Attributes Rise in Anti-Semitism to Trump

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(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

President Donald Trump’s election in 2016 inspired a growth of anti-Semitism, said American Defamation League National Director Emeritus and Holocaust survivor Abraham Foxman at an event Oct. 10 in the Mortara Center for International Studies.

Foxman heads the Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. He was joined by Rabbi David Saperstein, who served as the director and chief legal counsel at the Union for Reform Judaism’s Religious Action Center for nearly four decades. Saperstein also worked at the Department of State as the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom until January 2017.

The event, hosted by the Center for Jewish Civilization, sought to explore the status of anti-Semitism today.

The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States rose by 57 percent in 2017, the largest single-year increase on record since 1979, according to the ADL. Incidents of anti-Semitism on college campuses and in schools nearly doubled in 2017, for the second year in a row.

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1. I disagree with Foxman's assertion that the POS in the White House is [I]not[/I] an anti-Semite.

I think he is an anti-Semite, and I don't give a rat's shiny ass that his beloved daughter is a Jew. I am fucking sick and tired of people who decry the "some of my best friends are" mantra, except when it comes to Jews (and increasingly, gays). Anti-Semitism rises and few people care, even many Jews aren't taking notice. How bad does it have to get before it becomes a problem worthy of general concern?!

[getagrip_already]

2. I agree...

I know lots of people whose parents absolutely hate their spouses on racist grounds. Even in cases where they are polite and friendly in person to the people, they are nonetheless asshats with their kids in private.