It's no mystery that the Jews have had a rough history. From being exiled from their home in early ancient history to having the Plague blamed on them to Hitler's genocide, there is no pretending that being Jewish is a cakewalk.
In 1913, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was founded by Jews in America as a means to measure and combat antisemitism in the United States and eventually the globe, also extending their efforts into all discrimination of minorities. The ADL periodically performs Audits of Antisemitic Incidents to track antisemitism, presumably both in the United States and in other nations. Its most recent Audit of Antisemitic Incidents yielded "more than 2,100 acts of assault, vandalism, and harassment, an increase of 12 percent over the previous year." Since 1979, the inception of the Audit, there has been no higher recording of these violent incidents of antisemitism. These violent outbursts have targeted 91 individuals and killed 5 more. Understandably, American Jews have been on an unprecedentedly high alert when they're under such heavy threat and after two shootings at synagogues, one in Pittsburgh and one in Poway. There was even an incident in 2017 involving a crowd of 500-600 people bringing the Nazis back. There were Swastika flags waving, Nazi salutes held high, and many shouts of "Sieg Heil!" and "The Jews will not replace us!" It isn't like no one's trying to help, the ADL makes great efforts to stop antisemitism as it happens and to educate people on Judaism to prevent such antisemitism. Learn more at ADL's website: www.adl.org/what-we-do/anti-semitism/antisemitism-in-the-us
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