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Oct. 8, 2018 - Know More News - Adam Green
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The Truth About Anti-Semitism (Part 1)
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It's really easy to say the Jews are responsible for a large problem, uh, part of the problem in the world today.
I've seen it a lot lately.
I'm like, this used to be like really inappropriate thinking and talking just 20 years ago.
It used to be very taboo, and it is not anymore.
Anti-Semitism has never gone away.
It just has and I I could see if you're an anti-Semite, you're going.
The evil of the Jews is the closest I come to believing in magic because they just never stop being evil.
Like I just don't understand how this never goes away.
It never goes away.
It's so f weird.
Like, no matter where Jews have lived, it follows the Jews.
And I mean, I know that I'm sure at least one of your listeners is like no, the Jews follow it, but it's like, it's crazy.
It just won't go away.
It's uh it's a it's a virus that won't ever ever die down.
There's a bunch of problems with this anti-Semitic thing going on.
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the increasingly it's not just Israel or Israelis that are being compared to Hitler and the Nazis, it's Jews.
And so the focus for many of these people at these rallies is to demonize Jews.
They don't see the difference.
Europe has seen a rise in anti-Semitic attacks over the last few weeks.
Most blatantly, Jewish-owned businesses vandalized and one burned in Paris after an anti-Israel rally.
Free, free!
The UK has also reported a spike.
More than 100 incidents reported, and America is not immune.
Smaller acts of vandalism directed not towards Israeli institutions, but towards synagogues, like the one in Miami sprayed with Nazi swastikas, the word Jew written in cream cheese on a carus,
so you hear the terms all the time in the news.
Hate crime, culture of hate.
But what does it really mean?
And how many of those so-called crimes are real?
Last month, Israeli police arrested a 19-year-old Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in hundreds of bomb threats against Jewish community centers in the U.S. The surprising development in the story of those swastikas painted on the door of a student at George Washington University.
Turns out the student was painting the hateful symbols herself.
These incidents, and there were several of them, caused a lot of concern here on the GW campus.
Now the FBI was called in to assist after swastikas kept appearing on a message board, similar to a dry erase board on the door of a female student.
She is Jewish, who lived in Mitchell Hall.
Now the university confirms that a hidden camera placed in the hallway confirmed the student who was the apparent victim did it herself.
Newsforce spoke to that young woman who asked not to be identified shortly after the hate-filled symbols began appearing on her door.
Here's what she had to say at that time.
I wish I knew.
I wish I had any clue who this was.
But University Police, my house proctor, administrators, nobody can think of a motive of somebody who hates me that much.
Through the use of hidden cameras, interviews, and increased police patrols, we have concluded, and through a final interview today, investigators have concluded that the student who reported the incidents is responsible for the incidents.
Now, the university has confirmed that the student, who is a freshman, has admitted responsibility for the swastikas in Mitchell Hall.
She faces student judicial action, and she could face possible criminal charges.
But I get the feeling here at this Point that the university just wants to see her get some help.
This has been a very troubling incident for everyone here.
Crime detectives have arrested 56-year-old David Haddad for a string of anti-Semitic messages here in Brooklyn and in Manhattan.
Now my police sources are telling me that he's also the prime suspect in a rash of swastika incidents and a phone threat made here in Midwood over the weekend.
and what's surprising here police say hadad is jewish a police officer now stands guard over school children at an ocean parkway yeshiva defaced by hurtful and offensive symbols of hate and a couple of blocks away another swastika spray painted on the wall of this apartment building a third symbol to face the garage door on the Miltz family property.
Fear and you have to be careful and be more aware and you know, look behind you.
The disturbing discoveries were made Saturday night.
Then Sunday evening, a couple in this neighborhood returned home to find a message on their voicemail threatening repeatedly to kill all Jews.
Assemblyman Dove Heiken lives on the block.
He says his neighbors and constituents are all on edge.
Whoever it is, you know, Jew, Muslim, Chr, whatever.
We need to get those people off the streets.
That is the most important thing because people now are like, what's going on?
It's scary.
It's scary.
And your children are afraid.
And uh, you know, I hope they catch the people that do it.
Police have made an arrest in four previous anti-Semitic phone threat messages.
Under arrest is 56-year-old David Haddad.
He is Jewish according to police.
He's charged with harassment as a hate crime.
Now, also, police say that he's a relative of one of the victims and knows another.
My sources say he's also the prime suspect in these most recent Midwood incidents.
The FBI does not track fake hate or false flag crimes, making them nearly impossible to quantify.
certainly dozens or hundreds a year.
Burn in Jew
hell, bastard.
Jews.
I'll get you, you The Jews are responsible for every bad thing that has happened in this world.
They all deserve to die.
These are real posts from real people.
In 2016 alone, 382,000 anti-Semitic posts were published online.
That's one every 83 seconds.
31,000 of these posts called for violence against Jews.
Although outlawed in many countries and prohibited by the major social media networks, there are still calls for violence against Jews that are posted online every 15 minutes.
The most common of those are calls to gas, burn, or kill Jews.
We always knew cyber hate was a global issue, but we wanted to know just how widespread this reality really was.
To do this, the World Jewish Congress teamed up with Vigo Social Intelligence to do a comprehensive analysis of tens of millions of posts from social media platforms all over the globe.
This is what we found.
63% of anti-Semitic posts occur on Twitter, followed by Facebook at 11%, Instagram at 6%, and YouTube at 2%.
40% use symbols of hate.
8% were calls for violence against the Jewish people.
7% dehumanize Jews, and 4% denied the Holocaust.
Those are just statistics.
But this is a real person with real feelings.
Burn in hell, Jeth.
I didn't write that.
I read it on my Twitter feed.
No one, not me, not you, should be subjected to such hate.
The ADL says anti-Semitic hate speech is spreading on social media sites.
The ADL says anti-Semitic hate speech is spreading on social media sites.
There's no one official definition of anti-Semitism.
Antisemitism is measured in perceptions, how people perceive Jews.
The Anti-Defamation League, an organization that fights prejudice, is introducing what could become a global baseline measure of anti-Semitism.
A survey of over 50,000 people in 96 languages in over a hundred countries.
About a quarter of the world's population holds views of Jewish people that are by ADL standards anti-Semitic.
What's its standard?
The ADL created a questionnaire of 11 anti-Semitic statements or stereotypes, including Jews have too much power in international financial markets, Jews have too much control over the global media, Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust, and people hate Jews because of the way Jews behave.
Those who said at least six statements are probably true are considered by the ADL to harbor anti-Semitic attitudes.
The ADL's index attempts to leave people's political views on Israeli politics out of its equation.
So based on this index, where is anti-Semitism most prevalent?
The Middle East and North Africa region, where 74% of people surveyed held anti-Semitic views.
What region is the least anti-Semitic?
That would be the Americas, where less than one in five people overall hold anti-Semitic views.
In the US is about one in eleven.
What about Europe?
In Western Europe, the average score is 24%.
But in Eastern Europe and Russia, anti-Semitic attitudes are 10% higher.
How do Christians and Muslims worldwide compare?
Nearly a quarter of Christians believed six or more of the survey statements, Muslims, around half.
This is a sampling of the trove of data in this study.
But here's one last factoid.
Of the people globally who believe a majority of the anti-Semitic stereotypes are probably true, the vast majority have never met a Jewish person.
So what is anti-Semitism?
Let's be clear: Not liking people because they're different isn't anti-Semitism.
It's xenophobia.
Criticizing Israel isn't antisemitism.
It's part of the democratic process, and Israel is a democracy.
Antisemitism is something much more dangerous.
It's a prejudice that, like a virus, has survived over time by mutating.
Anti-Semitism is a virus that mutates.
It just won't go away.
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