Antisemitism across America, from Alabama to Wisconsin

• Published date: 20 April 2024
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Amid an unprecedented rise in antisemitism in the United States, USA Today interviewed members of the Jewish community in each state to learn how antisemitism is manifesting itself across the country

The USA Today report begins with Alabama, where in Montgomery alone, there were six incidents of bomb threats against six of the seven synagogues in the area.

Although Alaska is generally off the beaten path for most, "We have a very emotional group of people who are very intensely pro-Palestinian, and they don't care if they are coming off as antisemitic or not," Rabbi Abram Goodstein of Anchorage told USA Today. He also shared that within his synagogue, there is a divide where there is fear over everything happening, but also many in his community do not like what Israel is doing either.

Antisemitism at universities

California paints a bleak picture in the report, where respondents highlighted Berkeley and Los Angeles as hotspots of antisemitism. "The violence is increasing, because along with the verbal violence has come physical violence," long-time resident Dorothea Dorenz told USA Today.

Mayim Bialik said that in Los Angeles there's been a divide in groups that had previously seemed politically aligned. "The difference between a Jewish liberal progressive, I did not think was very far from a non-Jewish liberal progressive," however she says now in Los Angeles, "it feels like lines are being drawn in really scary ways."

At the University of Colorado at Denver in March, flyers were distributed that featured a QR code linking to a Hamas military pamphlet.

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