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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

“He’s played through this really old entire playbook where there’s no floor for him in terms of how low he will go. And we should be prepared for that, we should be prepared for the fact that he is not burdened by telling the truth… I think he’s gonna lie.”

— Kamala Harris, on The Rickey Smiley Show, talking about what Donald Trump will do in the debate.

“I have never seen a candidate more determined to blow an election.”

— GOP pollster Frank Luntz, on X, on Donald Trump’s latest vow to use the power of government to imprison his political opponents.

“Cheney and I agree on nothing — no issues. But what we do believe in is that the United States should retain its democratic foundations …. I applaud the Cheneys for their courage in defending democracy.”

— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), on Meet the Press.

“A series of tests confront Trump heading into Tuesday’s event, about self-discipline, knowledge, his age and acuity, his overall temperament, and how he deals with the issues of race and gender. For the past six weeks, he’s often been failing those tests.”

— Dan Balz

“Donald Trump has risen in the polls the more the people have reacted negatively to his treatment in the courtroom. And if the judge had gone ahead with this, it could have easily been the October surprise.”

— Karl Rove told Fox News that allowing sentencing to proceed in Donald Trump’s New York hush money case could have given Trump a boost in the polls.

Numerati

30%

A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll found 30% of registered voters said tonight’s debate will help them a great deal or good amount in making their selection for president. Roughly 69% said they do not think the event will help them very much or at all with their decision in November.

$1.3 billion

“The IRS has collected $1.3 billion from high wealth tax dodgers since last fall, the agency announced Friday, crediting spending that has ramped up collection enforcement through President Joe Biden’s signature climate, health care and tax package signed into law in 2022,” the AP reports.

46% to 45%

$48% to 43%

$25 million