In recent years, as overt anti-Semitism has declined, criticism of Israel’s policies from the left has often morphed from anti-Zionism into anti-Semitism. With rising housing costs in the neighborhood, some African Americans have had to move, replaced by white people—and that anger and resentment has focused on the white neighbors who live in closest proximity. Ivy League universities that once employed quotas to restrict the number of Jewish students now have Jewish presidents at the helm. These headline-grabbing incidents are part of a broader pattern. Since biblical days, Jews have been seen as “the other,” outsiders, victims of conspiracy theories and myths that have no rational source. Behind the scenes, Ms. Wruble said she felt cast aside. But not everyone is on board with that approach. During his 45-minute talk, Trump said: “A lot of you are in the real-estate business, because I know you very well. The New Anti-Semitism: A Geshrei October 1, 1991. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) began tracking anti-Semitic hate crimes four decades ago. Now we’re facing a new wave of overt anti-Semitism, including violence against Jews. Amid the terrifying wave of anti-Semitism in the United States of late, I have thought of that scene and wondered what has stirred up such anger against Jews now. COMMENTS ; Sign Up. On a cold Sunday afternoon in December, more than 20,000 Jews and others held a public rally, on short notice, in Brooklyn to protest the recent wave of anti-Semitic attacks. But never here in the U.S., we thought. Encounter, January 2004. … “I was taken aback,” said Ms. Wruble in her first extensive interview about her experience organizing the Women’s March. “They were talking about, ‘You people this,’ and ‘You people that’ and the kicker was, ‘You people hold all the wealth.’ I was like, ‘Oh my God, they are talking about her being Jewish,’” said Ms. Harmon, whose account was first published by Tablet. Ms. Wruble said she did not dwell on the issue because she wanted to work together on the march, which was only two months away. The Jewish community’s efforts in recent decades to align itself with other minorities in the face of racial, ethnic, and religious prejudice are now bearing fruit. It took Sharpton 28 years, but in May he publicly acknowledged his “cheap” rhetoric at the time of the Crown Heights riots, telling a Reform Jewish convention that he could have “done more to heal rather than harm.” Sharpton, whose reputation has been rehabilitated in recent years and who now hosts a talk show on MSNBC, strongly condemned the recent anti-Semitic attacks on Jews, “particularly because they were perpetrated by members of the African American community.” Other African American religious and political leaders in New York have issued similar statements. Prior to the surfacing of Grünbauer’s interview, no reliable document had ever come to light relating to Hitler’s anti-Semitism prior to the summer of 1919,” Weber writes, “Crucially, the anti-Semitic statements Hoeffkes recorded predate World War I and thus call into question the accepted wisdom of how Hitler turned into an anti-Semite. But she said the conversation took a turn when Tamika Mallory, a black gun control activist, and Carmen Perez, a Latina criminal justice reform activist, replied that Jews needed to confront their own role in racism. Text settings. The new Anti-Semitism differs from traditional jew hatred: it is a manifestation of the left: a virulent racism practiced in the name of anti-racism. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty, Democrats Are Short on Votes and Long on Irony, The Forgotten History of the Western Klan. A declaration by over 200 scholars says the definition being promoted by many mainstream Jewish groups "has caused confusion." The question is whether an armed presence will be enough to stave off physical attacks even as the long-standing effort to minimize, if not eradicate, anti-Semitism continues. In the 1920s, Henry Ford wrote a series of articles in his newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, accusing Jews of being part of a worldwide conspiracy based on an anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Sign-up . Comments Share. The report coincides with a general rise in antisemitic attacks last year The “firewalls” of protection that worked in the past—a common base of truth and facts, a shared consensus, fairness and accountability, a media that educates—“no longer have credibility. American Jews have long felt sorry for European Jews who feared to wear a kippah or Star of David in public in large cities such as London and Paris, where violent attacks and desecrations of gravestones and synagogues have become commonplace. The problem of antisemitism continues to be a serious one. We still do the work.”. Up popped a review of “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and the Jews,” a 1991 book by Mr. Farrakhan, which asserts that Jews were especially culpable. I take inspiration from the biblical charge to “choose life,” seeking a life of affirmation and dignity rather than one of fear. They were not marching for their brothers and sisters facing persecution in faraway countries. Ms. Mallory and Ms. Perez began berating Ms. Wruble, according to Evvie Harmon, a white woman who helped organize the march, and who attended the meeting at Ms. Mallory’s apartment complex. Ben Boulos I hope my name change has a positive impact on other people like me. But things are changing. 1651 3rd Avenue Suite 311 New York, NY 10128-3679 Phone: 212-860-0606 Proclaiming “Every Jew a .22,” he urged young Jews to arm themselves in the face of gang violence. Representing the 12th District of New York. Taking notes as surreptitiously as possible, my colleague and I exchanged worried glances, keenly aware that we represented a trifecta of evil in Farrakhan’s world. In fact, they said, they urged her to be more assertive if she wanted public recognition. While the Teaneck rabbi cautioned Jews not to be “over-aggressive, disproportionate in response,” he wrote that they “should respond blow for blow—two blows for every one blow—to every unprovoked attack.”. They’re gone,” Foxman said. Dennis Prager / @DennisPrager / July 31, 2020. A 2009 study entitled "Modern Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israeli Attitudes", published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2009, tested new theoretical model of antisemitism among Americans in the Greater New York area with 3 experiments. This past year brought the third-highest spike on record. “I said, ‘You are going to open up the march to intense criticism,’” Ms. Wruble said, warning that it would be a red flag for Jews. The old left and the new anti-Semitism. by Abraham H. Foxman. After initially denying the comments, Jackson publicly apologized before a Jewish audience, saying that “however innocent and unintended, it was wrong.”. Today, many in New York’s Jewish community are calling for more of the kind of under-the-radar but effective black-Jewish community coalition efforts in schools and between youths and civic leaders that emerged after the 1991 riots. Voices. Now Women’s March activists are grappling with how they treat Jews — and whether they should be counted as privileged white Americans or “marginalized” minorities, especially in the aftermath of the October mass shooting in Pittsburgh, when 11 people were gunned down at their synagogue. What is different today, and what offers a degree of consolation, is that following the recent rash of attacks, government officials—at the national, state, and local levels—have spoken out forcefully and taken steps to counter anti-Semitism. MY GRANDMOTHER HID IN a bureau drawer for three days while color­ful Christians ram­paged through the shtetl. Whatever vision they embrace, Jews can take pride in asserting their identity, carrying forward an ancient tradition whose gifts to the world include monotheism, the Sabbath, and the belief that each person is created in the image of God. Seeing professionals or volunteer guards outside synagogues, Jewish community centers, and religious schools is now common. Anti-Semitism, like some plague-inducing virus, is "evolving" -- or so warns Holocaust scholar Daniel J. Goldhagen in the American Jewish weekly The Forward. Public expressions of anti-Semitism have become more and more taboo in American society over the past three decades, as Jewish organizations have been more aggressive in calling out offenders—from professional athletes to government officials—as well as more proactive in seeking alliances with minority communities. Ms. Mallory denied that she disparaged Ms. Wruble’s Jewish heritage in that meeting, but acknowledged telling white women there that she did not trust them. Joseph Lieberman, an observant Jew, was almost elected vice president in 2000—the Democratic ticket won the popular vote—and his religious beliefs were not a major campaign issue. The great majority of American Jews, though, reject such vigilantism, instead favoring heightened security and police protection for Jewish neighborhoods and institutions. She said steps were being taken to ensure that Jewish women felt welcome, including giving Women’s March leaders education about anti-Semitism and adding Jewish women to the organization’s “unity principles,” which highlight groups that are considered especially vulnerable. But the divisions apparent at that very first meeting continue to haunt the Women’s March organization, as charges of anti-Semitism are now roiling the movement and overshadowing plans for more marches next month. How do we explain Jews being shot to death at Shabbat prayer in their synagogue by hate-filled white nationalists in Pittsburgh and Poway, California; and visibly Orthodox men and women violently attacked in Brooklyn and Monsey, New York, and shot down next door to a synagogue in Jersey City, New Jersey? That sort of rhetoric echoes the kind of vigilante efforts that made Meir Kahane admired and loathed when he founded the Jewish Defense League in late-’60s Brooklyn. “Since that conversation, we’ve all learned a lot about how while white Jews, as white people, uphold white supremacy, ALL Jews are targeted by it,” Ms. Mallory said in a statement to The New York Times. Anti-Semitism from the right has been more direct, and violent; both of the men charged with the fatal synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh and Poway claimed that Jews are a threat to the white race. In the civil-rights era, prominent Jews fought alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in his struggle for equality. Ms. Wruble was pushed out of the organization shortly after the march, and she now asserts that her Jewish identity played a role. Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews. Ms. Mallory has called Mr. Farrakhan “the GOAT,” or “greatest of all time,” on social media. Anti-Americanism: The New Anti-Semitism. One … She said they dismissed her concerns in a heated email exchange and accused her of unfairly maligning the Nation of Islam. Anti-Semitism can take many forms from conspiracy theories to outright verbal abuse and physical attacks on individuals or groups. $24.95 . What is required, experts agree, is more security and law-enforcement patrols as a deterrent; greater efforts to treat mental-health issues (about one-third of the recent attacks in New York were committed by people with previous psychiatric problems); a more effective way to deal with juvenile offenders (responsible for most of the New York attacks); and various forms of education to counter racism and hate, and to promote a healthier society. In a speech to the Israeli American Council in December, Trump made several comments that drew criticism from the American Jewish Committee and other Jewish organizations for “money references that feed age-old and ugly stereotypes.” (The group also expressed appreciation for the president’s “unwavering support for Israel.”). “I thought, ‘Maybe there are things I don’t know about my own people.’”, She said she went home that night and searched Google to read about the Jewish role in the slave trade. Abraham Foxman, a child survivor of the Holocaust who led the ADL for five decades, describes anti-Semitism as “an ancient virus without an antidote or vaccine.”, He told me that throughout history, depending on the circumstances, the virus of anti-Semitism has lain dormant or become more virulent. Now we’re not so sure. “We must create a society in which all women — including Black women, Indigenous women, poor women, immigrant women, disabled women, Muslim women, lesbian, queer and trans women — are free,” it read. Read: Is it time for Jews to leave Europe? Labour's ex-director of governance is among 21 people suing the party for libel over a leaked internal report into the handling of allegations of anti-Semitism… Follow @@wilbypeter. We saw it in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, where white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and Jew haters chanted racist and anti-Semitic slogans, wore uniforms with swastikas, and killed a counter-protester. On a blustery Baltimore night in the late 1980s, I went to hear Louis Farrakhan speak to a packed crowd at Morgan State University, a historically black college. The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism said: “There is no comparison between political tensions in the UK today and Nazi Germany’s systematic … A 29-year-old rabbinical student was stabbed to death, and some black leaders, including Al Sharpton, stoked the fury of the crowds, calling for violence against Jews. “It’s like a perfect storm.”. In 1654, Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor of the colony of New Amsterdam, sought to expel Jews as “deceitful,” “very repugnant,” and “hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ.” The Brandeis University historian Jonathan Sarna points out that Stuyvesant also railed against “the Lutherans and the papists,” noting that “in America, the fate of Jews and the fate of other persecuted minority groups were, from the very beginning, entwined.”. HarperCollins, October 2003. Anti-Semitism was an issue for Shirley Holtzman Schwartz back when she was growing up in Pittsburgh’s Hill District in the 1940s. Today, though, the challenge is closer to home. We had believed that such worries were relegated to our brothers and sisters in Europe, with its centuries of ugly history of Jew hatred and pogroms, culminating in the Holocaust. The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do about It, by Phyllis Chesler. She said she was told by one of the march leaders that “we really couldn’t center Jewish women in this or we might turn off groups like Black Lives Matter.” While Black Lives Matter is a diffuse movement, some activists have issued statements expressing solidarity with Palestinians under Israeli occupation. Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Harvard professor, has called the book the “bible of the new anti-Semitism.”. According to the author, the lessons of the Holocaust are slowly being forgotten and a "free-floating" globalised hatred of Jews is being spread via the Internet and television. Although the term now has wide currency, it is a misnomer, since it implies a discrimination against all Semites. I remember feeling a tug of gratitude for the shift in his tone and message, and noted how quickly a crowd can be stirred up or calmed down. As the editor of the weekly Baltimore Jewish Times, I wanted to experience firsthand the impact his hate-filled invective had on audiences. They say that his rhetoric and tweets, his targeting of minorities, his bullying and name-calling have created an atmosphere conducive to such attacks. QAnon is an old form of anti-Semitism in a new package, experts say By Ben Sales September 18, 2020 11:30 am A group of Germans who follow the QAnon conspiracy theory protest in Berlin, Aug. 29, 2020. “Their rhetoric around this stuff will hurt the movement.”, Women’s March Roiled by Accusations of Anti-Semitism, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/23/us/womens-march-anti-semitism.html. US politics. But then, as he neared the end of his rant, his pace slowed, his voice lowered, and he called on his listeners to show their pride and dignity when encountering television reporters outside the auditorium. Get the New Statesman’s Morning Call email. On her way out, Ms. Wruble texted a senior adviser to the organization with a warning: “The one thing I would suggest you discuss with them is the anti-Semitic piece of this,” she wrote. Now the attacks are the main topic of discussion among an American Jewish community shaken to its core. But after King’s assassination in 1968, Black Power advocates, frustrated with the results of peaceful marches, took the stage. As society has grown more polarized, classic forms of hatred have increased dramatically. Rachel O’Leary Carmona, chief operating officer of the Women’s March group, cast the controversy as the growing pains of a new organization that is struggling to build a diverse coalition. “We’re living in an environment today that is more user-friendly to the virus,” he said, “a time of incivility, lack of tolerance, no respect for the truth. Many in the crowd recalled with pride the 1987 protest in D.C., but this was different. An internal document obtained by The Times said that the Women’s March group does not ask the religious affiliation of contractors, but said that because private security firms employ a large number of Nation of Islam members, “it is likely” that some members of the sect have provided security for Women’s March events. 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