(Jewish Group) Pandemics have always incited anti-Semitism. Here's the history you need to know.
Every pandemic begins with a terrifying moment in which it seems impossible to explain what is happening.
Often, whoever is considered the “other” in society is blamed, a scapegoating we see happening here and now.
President Trump’s administration has drawn criticism for periodically insisting on calling the coronavirus “the Chinese virus,” a move many see as racist. In the first weeks of the American crisis over coronavirus, white nationalists tried to deliberately spread the coronavirus to Jews, as detailed in a recent FBI alert. Earlier this week, protesters in front of the Ohio Statehouse carried signs directly blaming Jews for plague, depicting Jews as rats — drawing condemnation from Governor Mike DeWine. They’re not alone: as Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, noted in remarks on anti-Semitism this week, “Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant rise in accusations that Jews, as individuals and as a collective, are behind the spread of the virus or are directly profiting from it.”
Meanwhile, some lawmakers have compared coronavirus restrictions to Nazi laws: Idaho State Representative Heather Scott, for instance, compared coronavirus lockdowns to Nazi Germany and the state governor to “Little Hitler.” “I mean that’s no different than the Nazi Germany, where you had government telling people, you are an essential worker or non-essential worker and the non-essential workers got put on a train,” she said.
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