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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

— Charlie Sykes

“The president of the United States didn’t give us an assignment. We’re not a bunch of little bitches around here, okay? I’m a member of Congress. I represent almost 800,000 Wisconsinites.”

— Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), talking to reporters.

— Harry Enten

Numerati

33%

“The volume of Canadians taking road trips into the U.S.—the means by which most Canadians visit—dropped by 33% last month compared to June 2024, following a 38% drop in May,” Forbes reports.

53%

A new Morning Consult poll finds 53% of Americans don’t know why the American colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence to separate from Britain on July 4, 1776.

$1.6 billion

President Trump’s pardons and commutations have cost more than $100 million in fines owed to the federal government and another $1.5 billion in restitution to victims, Forbes reports.

58%

$3.3 trillion