From the Anti-Defamation League on February 27, 2018:
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said in a new report today that the number of anti-Semitic incidents was nearly 60 percent higher in 2017 than 2016, the largest single-year increase on record and the second highest number reported since ADL started tracking incident data in the 1970s.
The sharp rise, reported in ADL’s Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, was in part due to a significant increase in incidents in schools and on college campuses, which nearly doubled for the second year in a row.
There were 1,986 anti-Semitic incidents reported across the United States in 2017, including physical assaults, vandalism, and attacks on Jewish institutions. That figure represents a 57 percent increase over the 1,267 incidents in 2016. Every part of the country was affected, with an incident reported in all 50 states for the first time in at least a decade.
“A confluence of events in 2017 led to a surge in attacks on our community – from bomb threats, cemetery desecrations, white supremacists marching in Charlottesville, and children harassing children at school,” said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director. “These incidents came at a time when we saw a rising climate of incivility, the emboldening of hate groups and widening divisions in society. In reflecting on this time and understanding it better with this new data, we feel even more committed to our century-old mission to stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.”
The Guardian reported at the time:
Donald Trump’s administration has been accused of failing to condemn religious bigotry. Jewish groups scolded the president last year for not mentioning Jews or antisemitism in a statement about the Holocaust.
Following August violence at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists waved insignia from Nazi Germany and yelled “Jews will not replace us”, Trump was slammed for suggesting a moral equivalency between members of the far right and counterdemonstrators. “You had people that were very fine people on both sides,” he said.
The ADL’s report said US schools and colleges were particularly affected, with antisemitic incidents nearly doubling since 2016, often including swastikas drawn on school facilities or Jewish students’ notebooks. Sometimes vandalism included phrases such as: “Hitler was not wrong” or “white power”.
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On this date at Daily Kos in 2007—Tell Me One Good Thing About a Candidate You Don't Back:
Here we are, mere weeks away from [primary] votes being cast in what may well be the most crucial presidential election since '68, and, not surprisingly, we're shrieking at each other. Again. That's politics, leftist-style, progressive-style, Democratic-style. Perhaps it could be done without shrieking, but it isn't, and I doubt it ever will be.
For the moment, however, for one brief pause, I'd like to see everyone who's already selected a presidential candidate to write one positive and substantive thing about the policies and/or political behavior of a candidate s/he doesn't support. Something positive and substantive about which your candidate isn't as good.
Not a compliment that conceals a slap. Not a yes, but... Rather something that you wish your chosen candidate would adopt without reservation. Something that, if the time comes when your favored choice fails to get the nomination, will make you feel better about voting in November 2008 for that other candidate.
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