(Jewish Group)Virus outbreak in black-Jewish Baltimore neighborhood leads to anti-Semitic blame game

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An African-American radio host’s public blaming of Jews for Baltimore’s coronavirus outbreak led to an accusation of anti-Semitism, particularly since data shows that the city’s COVID-19 hotspots include neighborhoods popular with both Jews and black residents.

“There are a lot of Jewish people moving down here from New York City,” the host, George Mitchell, said on his WOLB 1010 AM show on Monday. “Now where was the hotbed of the virus? In New York City. It’s only obvious to me that if a person moves here from New York City, there’s more of a possibility the person has the virus than if the person was black.”

The comments, and anything else he or others might have done or said, prompted a harsh response from Isaac Schleifer, a Jewish city councilman.

“When people are suffering and dying, the last thing we have time for is ignorance,” Schleifer told a local television station, WBFF. “There’s never been a more important time for unity, and I hope this individual will think carefully about how his words are affecting us all.”

The data publicly available so far in Baltimore, as in many other places, makes it difficult to parse whether Jews in fact have higher rates of coronavirus infection or COVID-19 diagnoses than other populations.

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