Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Anti-Semitic Acts During CoronaVirus Pandemic

Nadene Goldfoot                                           
Remembering the Holocaust in Israel
6 million lives murdered because of anti-Semitism
While most all our world population is at home, the anti-Semites are at work and of course, we Jews are still the scapegoats said to cause this situation.   The American Jewish Congress reports that "Our latest Anti-Semitism Digital Monitoring report alerts that extremist groups have shifted toward calls to action”.
                                                         
Slogans such as “Holocaugh” and “If you have a bug, give a hug: spread the flu to every Jew” are being disseminated by extremists on social media channels and messaging apps."  These comments are just the tip of the iceburg.  The Nazi believers are most active, and this sort of thinking has led to several deaths not too long ago.  

                                                     
The American Jewish Congress " is an association of American Jews organized to defend Jewish interests at home and abroad through public policy advocacy, using diplomacy, legislation, and the courts.  It was started by Louis Brandeis and Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise in 1918. The AJC have noted this upsurge in anti-Semitism.

                                                                                    
Rabbi Wise
Judge Louis Brandeis

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"Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents from Bohemia, who raised him in a secular home.  "Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise was an early 20th-century American, Progressive Era, Reform rabbi, and Zionist leader."

Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress (EJC), said Monday there has been a rise in accusations that Jewish people are behind the spread of the virus or are directly profiting from it.

 Jewish organizations trying to congregate online have been targets of "zoombombing."
"Israeli researchers found that "researchers on anti-Semitism, show an 18% spike in attacks against Jews last year. The report warns that the pandemic has threatened to amp up incitement even more.
Although they did not include 2020 statistics, the researchers said the hatred has come from sources as varied as right-wing European politicians, ultra-conservative American pastors, anti-Zionist intellectuals and Iranian state authorities."

It's an old story to many of us oldsters who know much about our Jewish history and how through the ages we've been the scapegoat of anything bad that has come along including illnesses.  Here it's happening again in this day and age of science, and we have a certain population that continues to blame others for whatever horror comes along and that's been the Jews.

Resource:  https://ajcongress.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Updated-2-AJCongress-report-1.pdf?utm_source=American+Jewish+Congress&utm_campaign=d09b62e2dc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_12_09_48_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_50422fbff1-d09b62e2dc-338001889&mc_cid=d09b62e2dc&mc_eid=320638f2a1

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