The Simon Wiesenthal Center held a press conference at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles to announce their annual Top Ten in Global Antisemitism.
Simon Wiesenthal Center's Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Assistant Dean explains the list of their selections in this video interview.
During covid and probably going forward in which the
And not to, of course, we also mention about the disastrous situation on so many campuses. So all this takes place at a time over the last two years where so many of us have been locked down we don't have really a normal life to speak of and yet we see this explosion of anti-semitism."
The May 2021 conflict between
Israel and terrorist Hamas,
played out across cities and on
social media in Europe and North
America. Hamas’ violent vitriol
targeting Jews was exported to
Germany, the UK, and across the
Atlantic in the US and Canada.
While Hamas rockets pummeled
Israeli civilian communities, a rabbi
was physically attacked outside
his synagogue in London. On the
same day, a caravan of cars flying
Palestinian flags roamed through
the city’s largely Jewish Golders Green neighborhood, chanting,
“F**k the Jews and rape their
daughters” broadcast over a
loudspeaker.
Across the US, synagogues
and Jews were targeted. In Los
Angeles, pro-Hamas thugs jumped
out of a caravan of SUVs at a
restaurant in the heart of the city,
demanding to know who was
Jewish, spouting anti-Semitic rants,
and violently attacking Jewish
customers. A day earlier, during the Shavuot festival, a Hasidic father
of six had to run for his life to escape antiSemites pursuing him in
vehicles adorned with Palestinian flags.
In New York, violence emerged from a pro-Palestinian demonstration. A
young man was badly beaten by proPalestinian attackers in broad
daylight, sending him to the hospital with a concussion.
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In Canada, Jews attending pro-Israel rallies in the country’s major
cities were cursed, spat upon, and beaten by
Pro-Palestinian protesters.
Most nations did not acknowledge the wave of anti-Jewish attacks and at
the UN it was anti-Israel business as
usual. At a special hearing at the General Assembly, the president of
the UN Human Rights Council presented
his annual report which was obsessed with one nation—not egregious human
rights violators, like China or
Iran—but Israel. Israel’s UN ambassador, Gilad Erdan, rose to the podium
and declared that the “Antisemitic and
one-sided report” belonged “in the dustbin of history.” He then ripped
apart a copy of the report and left the hall.
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