Anti-Semitism On the Rise
Disclaimer: If you are sensitive to recent events of anti-Semitism, be mindful of that while reading this article. I’m sure you are well aware of the this week’s acts of anti-Semitism which include bomb threats, knocking over headstones, and defending Pewdiepie and anti-Semitic memes. These past two weeks, eleven bomb threats have been targeted at Jewish community centers, or JCCs, and during January, sixty bomb threats were made targeting forty-eight JCCs. In the past week, over one hundred headstones were knocked over at Mount Carmel Cemetery. Pewdiepie recently made a video where he paid two men to hold up signs saying “Death to all Jews” which he called a social experiment. If you look up “anti-Semitic memes,” you might feel like breaking your device in half. This has been an ongoing problem for decades, but many anti-Semitic people feel more empowered since President Trump’s election. People online have been saying, “Hitler did nothing wrong”…
