Antisemitism, the world’s oldest bigotry, festers around the globe and at home, where it’s at its worst since incident records have been kept.
In recent days, a brawl attributed to insults broke out between soccer teams of Jewish and Catholic schools in Miami, a bicyclist was attacked and beaten in Broward County by someone who heard him speaking in Hebrew on a cell phone, and two Jewish worshippers were shot outside synagogues in Los Angeles. U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Parkland, reported receiving more than 200 hate-filled responses to a Twitter post.
The Anti-Defamation League reported a record 2,717 incidents in 2021, up 34% from the year before. A survey last year found more than three-fourths of Americans believe at least one common antisemitic trope and 20% hold to six or more of them.
