Anti-Defamation League CEO and Director Jonathan Greenblatt stated on Sunday that antisemitism has increased in the United States by 388 percent since Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel on October 7.
During an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show,” Greenblatt told host Jonathan Capehart, “We’ve seen a wave of this all over the country,” mentioning occurrences at Harvard and Cornell as examples.
A rising tide of antisemitism, he declared. Both the far right and the far left have normalised it, and we’ve seen it.
Since the attack on October 7, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told a Senate hearing that there has been an uptick in threats against Muslims and Jews.
Mayorkas stated that in the weeks following, threats against Jewish, Muslim, and Arab American organisations and institutions increased across the country. “Hate directed at Jewish students, communities, and institutions adds to a preexisting increase in the level of antisemitism in the United States and around the world.”
In the days following the original attack by Hamas, the Council on American-Islamic Relations received 774 reports of bigotry and other occurrences, including the murder of a Palestinian-American youngster, age 6, in Illinois.
According to Greenblatt, recent acts of antisemitism in the United States go beyond what would be considered “run of the mill” in Europe or Israel.
I’m not talking about shops selling IDF T-shirts, he said; rather, he was referring to places like cafes in Long Island and the Bay Area and eateries in Chicago.
The grandchild of a Holocaust survivor whose barbershop was destroyed by the Nazis in Germany, he continued, “I say this as the grandson of a Holocaust victim. I really can’t believe this is occurring in America right now.
Anti-Defamation League CEO and Director Jonathan Greenblatt stated on Sunday that antisemitism has increased in the United States by 388 percent since Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel on October 7.
During an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show,” Greenblatt told host Jonathan Capehart, “We’ve seen a wave of this all over the country,” mentioning occurrences at Harvard and Cornell as examples.
