anti-Semitism Archives

JewBelong Takes on Anti-Semitism Via Billboards

February 7, 2022 Buck Banks

“Does your church need armed guards? Cause our synagogue does.”

— JewBelong, a nonprofit organization created to welcome and inspire Jewish people, put up four billboards with striking messages throughout South Florida last week to raise awareness about anti-Semitism and make people think about its effects.

ADL Says 2018 Highest Percentage Increase in Anti-Semitic Acts Ever in U.S.

October 29, 2018 Buck Banks

57%

“What I can tell you is in 2016 we saw a 34 percent increase in acts of harassment, vandalism and violence against the Jewish community. But last year, a 57 percent increase, the single largest surge that we’ve ever seen in anti-Semitic acts in the United States,” said Anti Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, on “This Week.”

“The Anti-Defamation League is reporting a 57 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. last year, the highest tally that the Jewish civil rights group has counted in more than two decades,” the AP reports.

Sometimes It’s the Reverse

February 28, 2017March 1, 2017 Buck Banks

The swaztikas are multiplying by ones and twos,
Jewish cemeteries are defiled, but there are no clues.
We don’t know who’s doing it,
But Trump says he’d bet it’s
Being done by none other than the Jews.

Tag: anti-Semitism

JewBelong Takes on Anti-Semitism Via Billboards

“Does your church need armed guards? Cause our synagogue does.”

— JewBelong, a nonprofit organization created to welcome and inspire Jewish people, put up four billboards with striking messages throughout South Florida last week to raise awareness about anti-Semitism and make people think about its effects.

ADL Says 2018 Highest Percentage Increase in Anti-Semitic Acts Ever in U.S.

57%

Anti-Semitic Incidents Rise

57%

“The Anti-Defamation League is reporting a 57 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. last year, the highest tally that the Jewish civil rights group has counted in more than two decades,” the AP reports.

Sometimes It’s the Reverse

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

“I think it’s embarrassing, still, even more so. I mean, sure, like, take care of yourself, get healthy, but who gets to take four months off of work because they’re sad?”

— Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) called Rep. Tom Kean Jr’s (R-NJ) explanation on Tuesday for his prolonged absence from Congress “embarrassing” in an interview with TMZ, Mediaite reports.

Numerati

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.

$3.81 billion

53%

A new Cato Institute poll found that only 53% of Americans could correctly identify the adoption of the Declaration of Independence as the historical event marked by July 4. And 46% said they did not know what the day commemorated, including 61% of Gen Z respondents.

$26 million

“President Donald Trump said he had earned at least $26 million in income from an array of new real estate ventures abroad, illustrating how his fortune has grown as his family embraces foreign deal-making in his second term,” Bloomberg reports.