#antisemitism in the usa

[bsof-maarav]

From JCRC: On Wednesday, May 8, protestors attacked attendees of a private event hosted by Jewish author and educator Debbie Lechtman (Roots Metals) in Oakland. The event, hosted on Holocaust Remembrance Day, was a talk on antisemitism, and was not focused on Israel. Attendees allege they were followed, called “disgusting Jewish pigs” and were hit with glass bottles filled with fake blood leading to cuts, head injuries and clothing stains. Targeting anyone because of their identity is wrong. The mob-style intimidation tactics displayed by these protestors is a stark reminder of the pervasive and insidious nature of hate and antisemitism. The event organizers have informed the Oakland Police Department and FBI, and an incident report has been filed. We are disgusted by these vile and antisemitic actions. Violence and intimidation have no place in our community. We are deeply concerned agitators are turning their attention to intimidate and harass our Jewish community. We cannot let threats and mob rule overcome our ability to gather and convene as a community.

[gehayi]

What can we do to help Jewish people be safe?  

(genuine question from a non-Jew) (posted August 16, 2023) (first time I’ve heard of this happening) (i’m so so sorry) (i want to help y’all) (no one should have to endure this) 

Because I'm only seeing other Jews posting about this, non-Jews I need you to be aware that for the past month or two there has been a wave of bomb threats and swattings at synagogues all across the US. They usually do it when services are being livestreamed. I haven't seen a single non-Jew talking about this. High holidays are coming up in a few weeks, which is when most attacks happen against our communities. We're worried, and we need people to know what's happening to us.

[the-eyespy]

🇺🇸🇵🇸 NYPD reportedly resorts to brutal force, arresting pro-Palestine demonstrators outside Columbia University. The protesters, advocating for a Gaza ceasefire, were engaging in peaceful demonstrations.

[girlactionfigure]

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[hilacopter]

I find it ironic that western leftists demand israelis leave israel because we're all white colonizers in their eyes (regardless of the fact that even if jews really weren't indigenous to the levant, which we are, over half the population is middle eastern anyway), but when we do leave israel for other countries we get hatecrimed. it would be bad enough if we had people telling us "good on you for going back to where you came from" or some shit but no they really just view us as inherently irredeemable and evil no matter where we are. almost feels like they're trying to lure us into being harassed overseas.

[mysharona1987]

This was yesterday.

They literally stole the dude’s idea though.

[bsof-maarav]

Will they ever begin to wonder why the only Jews in their circles are Jews who feel no social obligations to any specific Jewish community; Jews who lack even the most fundamental knowledge of their own history, let alone the history of Jews from other parts of the diaspora; Jews who recoil from the thought of belonging to any Jewish collective that is not just a grouping of tokens but is fundamentally Jewish in its nature; Jews whose stake in being Jewish goes no deeper than some vague "cultural" reference to humor or bagels or buffoonish stereotypes; Jews who have never demonstrated a degree of solidarity with other Jews that is remotely commensurate with the loyalty that is demanded of them on the basis of whatever their non-Jewish circle claims to value; Jews who allow themselves to be externally defined;

Jews who preemptively disavow their own culture, traditions, history, and/or country to make others comfortable with them; Jews who do their utmost to reduce the friction between their culture and everyone else's, who are quiet about any ways in which they deviate from the group norm; who are quick to say that the only value in something Jewish is as an object lesson to be universalized and used in the service of someone else's liberation...

[queenwille]

i find it really astonishing how much americans project their own social issues on the war, on gaza and on israel.

why is it though? is it the need to feel seen? is it the desperate desire to feel like a part of something? is it the worry that their suffering will be forgotten or pushed aside? is it a fear of not being taken seriously if it not relevant to them? because you can protest and object to things even if they aren’t directly relevant to you, it’s fine.

the thing is that i can honestly promise one thing:

this isn’t about you.✨

[the-eyespy]

🇺🇸🇵🇸 NYPD reportedly resorts to brutal force, arresting pro-Palestine demonstrators outside Columbia University. The protesters, advocating for a Gaza ceasefire, were engaging in peaceful demonstrations.

[eretzyisrael]

Every week we are reading about professions that are pushing out Zionist Jews from their fields.

In the field of international law:

...The professor saw a trend among the topics Israeli and Jewish colleagues were pushed to pursue. Those who continued their academic work in international law either wrote about Palestinians as victims or Israel’s violations of humanitarian international law. “Israelis would either write about IP law or business law, or about how Israel is being awful, violating human rights and all of that.”

This stood out because the professor noticed their colleagues from Latin America and China weren’t expected to work on topics that criticize their home countries as a condition for receiving faculty support. Yet when it came to Israelis, it was “clear to us this is what we need to deliver on.”

In the professor’s discussions with the senior faculty, especially the progressive liberal Jewish faculty, it came through clearly that support for Israeli students was conditioned on being the right type of Israeli, “and there were fellowships and scholarships and grants available to students who are willing to do that. In Hebrew we say that a person knows which side of the bread is buttered, right? So it’s pretty clear what pays off is to distance yourself from a mainstream Israeli kind of discourse.”

Understanding who holds the power and influences decisions is important in any profession, the law included. “You need to have the support and the mentors to advance in your career,” the professor explained, “and for that, you look for cues on what should I do, how do I make these people like me. Why would you bother, why would you take the risk of saying something that is controversial or put yourself in the position of protecting Israel or speaking on behalf of Israel when there is only a price to pay for that?”

“For example, there is an institute that gives out scholarships to doctoral students who are writing dissertations about Israel. I was advised not to take their money because then it’s going to be on my CV and people will interpret that as if I don’t have the right kind of politics. So even when there are economic incentives to write different kinds of scholarship,” under the current academic incentives, the professor concludes, scholarships and point-interventions will not work “because it’s more about selection and authority and networks and connections and less about economic incentives.”

Mental health professionals:

The anti-Zionist blacklist is the most extreme example of an anti-Israel wave that has swept the mental health field since the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks and the resulting war in Gaza, which has seen the deaths of thousands of Palestinian civilians. More than a dozen Jewish therapists from across the country who spoke to Jewish Insider described a profession ostensibly rooted in compassion, understanding and sensitivity that has too often dropped those values when it comes to Jewish and Israeli providers and clients.

At best, these therapists say their field has been willing to turn a blind eye to the antisemitism that they think is too rampant to avoid. At worst, they worry the mental health profession is becoming inhospitable to Jewish practitioners whose support for Israel puts them outside the prevailing progressive views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Authors:

Over the past several months, a litmus test has emerged across wide swaths of the literary world effectively excluding Jews from full participation unless they denounce Israel. This phenomenon has been unfolding in progressive spaces (academia, politics, cultural organizations) for quite some time. That it has now hit the rarefied, highbrow realm of publishing — where Jewish Americans have made enormous contributions and the vitality of which depends on intellectual pluralism and free expression — is particularly alarming.

It feels like history is repeating itself.

Jews founded the Jews' Hospital in New York in 1855, now known as Mount Sinai Hospital, partially as a response to the need for a place that Jews could be treated without feeling like outsiders, as every other hospital at the time was aligned with various Christian groups. It followed the founding in 1850 of the Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati. When Mount Moriah Hospital Mount Moriah Hospital opened in New York in 1908, the Forward reported that Jews "can open the door and enter as if to your own home without a racing heart and without fear."

Brandeis University was founded in 1948 "at a time when Jews and other ethnic and racial minorities, and women, faced discrimination in higher education."

Jews who were facing discrimination formed professional associations and schools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, for physicians, scientists, and trades, like the Hebrew Technical Institute in New York and the Kehillah which attempted to be an umbrella of professional and educational associations in New York (and that the antisemite Henry Ford railed against.)

It appears that it is time for Jews in the professions where they are being blacklisted must start to form Jewish professional organizations, educational networks and institutions anew, where Jews can network and publish as they want without having to please the "progressive" crowds.

But the arc of history is going backwards, and this is only a Band-Aid. The problem is with America and the world itself, and Jews cannot solve this problem alone - the dangers of the progressive bigots are a threat to the free world and that needs to be addressed at the macro level.

[beauty-funny-trippy]

Ever notice that the Conspiracy Theories that Republicans love most are the ones that have 0% facts, are 100% ridiculous, and if they have elements of racism or bigotry, they'll practically work themselves into a frenzy trying to promote the lies. • Jewish space lasers • Haitian immigrants eating pets • Birtherism (used against non-white politicians) • Holocaust denial • Drag Queen conspiracies • Great Replacement Theory • Racist theories against CRT • Homophobic/Racist theories against Wokeness • Kids going to school and coming back a different gender • Nazi and KKK propaganda • etc, etc,... Unfortunately, these are not the harmless Conspiracy Theories of yesteryear — Bigfoot, Aliens, and the Loch Ness Monster. These Republican lies, about whole groups of people, are dangerous and even life-threatening. And it has become obvious, as seen in Project 2025, that the depth and breadth of Republican discrimination and malice knows no bounds.

[aqlstar]

Just described the situation of college campuses in the US to one of my campers who made Aliyah from Belarus.

She goes- oh, sounds like how people treat Jews in Belarus.

I think it would be good if the United States could stop resembling Belarus please.

[talwat]

DC protests

wtf is going on?? how on earth are people just brushing off literal terrorist sympathizers directly advocating for the murder of jews worldwide... this is actually insane

[zionistbeyonce]

Asher Goodwin: "We were a group of about 7 people on our way to Friday dinner. Me and my friend were wearing yarmulkes, because that's what we normally do... then suddenly a man came running from behind and hit us. First he hit Ilan and then me, with a 1 liter glass bottle... he broke the bottle on my neck/throat."

Moav Vardi [news anchor/journalist]: "It happened two months ago in the heart of America. Asher Goodwin and Ilan Gordon, two Jewish students of the university of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, were wearing yarmulkes because they were on their way to the local Beit Hillel"

Ilan Gordon: "I got the full impact, so I had a concussion and my teeth got a little messed up"

Vardi: "Beyond the concussion, Ilan also needed to undergo surgery following injury to the gums. It is a miracle that Asher, whose throat was cut, came out of this incident the way he did (alive and without severe injuries)

[...] Unfortunately, the attack against Asher and Ilan hasn't been a rare occasion in the past year. Soon after October 7th, after Israel started the war against Hamas in Gaza, antisemetic incidents on American college campuses, and in general throughout the United States, have become a real epidemic"

Source: Kan on YouTube