{"id":802714,"date":"2020-01-02T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=376752"},"modified":"2020-01-02T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T22:30:00","slug":"opinion-susan-knopf-anti-semitism-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/opinion-susan-knopf-anti-semitism-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Susan Knopf: Anti-Semitism on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Susan Knopf<\/strong>
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\u201cHey you! I\u2019ll get you!\u201d screamed the machete-wielding man, according to Josef Gluck. The assailant burst into an orthodox rabbi\u2019s home and stabbed five people. One is in a coma<\/a> and not expected to survive. It was a miracle more were not harmed or killed. Gluck told<\/a> The New York Times that he scooped up a small child and fled out the back. People fought the masked man. Gluck told Milwaukee Fox affiliate WITI-TV<\/a> in a live interview that he returned through the front door of the house and broke a table across the assailant\u2019s face. According to the Anti Defamation League, this is the 10th anti-Semitic attack<\/a> in the New York area in the past week.<\/p>\n

The Christian Science Monitor reports one of the most disturbing aspects of the rise in violent anti-Semitism is it transcends political and cultural boundaries<\/a>, coming from the right and the left.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the radical right, they often glorify violence,\u201d Gunther Jikeli<\/a> told the Monitor. Jikeli is a scholar of anti-Semitism at Indiana University Bloomington. \u201cWhen \u2026 the radical right were discussing the Pittsburgh shootings<\/a>, nobody questioned the violence. They either glorified the murderer or said, \u2018Oh, he\u2019s stupid, just killing elderly Jews.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the left, it\u2019s more to do with their worldview of anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism, where Jews are somehow in line with imperialists and the colonialism of the state of Israel,\u201d Jikeli said. \u201cYou have American college campuses where pro- or even neutral Israeli sentiments are attacked in the name of ideology that has its roots in Mao, Che Guevara, and Third World-ism.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s my experience. I\u2019ll never forget meeting a Columbia University professor who insisted Jews were central to the scheme to enslave Africans. \u201cThe Atlantic<\/a>,\u201d in a 1995 article, debunks such faulty scholarship, and yet the pernicious claims endure.<\/p>\n

For the record, the FBI reports that in 2018<\/a>, a Jew was more likely to be the victim of a hate crime than all other religions combined. A Jew was four times more likely to be a hate crime victim than a Muslim. A Jew was more likely to be a hate crime victim than a Latino. The Anti Defamation League records more than twice as many anti-Semitic attacks<\/a> as the FBI due to under reporting by local law enforcement. The statistics were the same in last year\u2019s column<\/a>, when I reported anti-Semitic incidents in Summit County.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not getting better. It\u2019s getting worse. The Anti Defamation League reported hate crime up 60% last year and up another 21%<\/a> this year. \u201cPeople were always quite comfortable here \u2026\u201d Rabbi Romiel Daniel of New York City said. He told the Christian Science Monitor<\/a> that Jewish people in the United States, and in New York City in particular, have always felt an unprecedented level of inclusion and equality when compared with other countries and other times of history. \u201cBut suddenly in the last two or three years, the climate has changed. \u2026 It\u2019s a constant feeling that it is not as safe as it should be, even here.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Southern Poverty Law Center attributes the grave surge in violent American anti-Semitism to the statements of President Donald Trump. The center says white nationalists now feel they have a man<\/a> in the White House.<\/p>\n

In a 2018 article<\/a>, the Christian Science Monitor reported global anti-Semitism is surging. \u201cAntisemitism is one of those manifestations of that world view,\u201d Bard College Professor Ken Stern<\/a> told the Monitor, \u201cbecause historically Jews are seen as an other, a danger, and conspiring to harm non-Jews. We do know \u2026 when there is a glorification of the us versus them mentality, antisemitism is always going to rise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you hear the familiar theme we\u2019ve talked a lot about? The other. There it is again. Same issue with immigrants<\/a>. I rely on the golden rule (Matthew 7:12), \u201cDo unto others as you would have them do unto you.\u201d Famed first century Jewish scholar Hillel<\/a> stated, \u201cThat which is hateful to you do not do to another.\u201d If we can just treat everyone as we would like to be treated, imagine the world we would live in: a world of kindness, consideration and equality.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the same idea could cure wage disparity. Treat your rank and file employees like they are members of your executive suite. It all comes down to the same thing. Let\u2019s make 2020 the year each of us treats everyone the way we want to be treated. And let each of us be emboldened to speak against the culture that would have us fear the other, whether it\u2019s coming from the right or the left.<\/p>\n

Susan Knopf\u2019s column \u201cFor The Record\u201d publishes Fridays in the Summit Daily News. Knopf has worn many hats in her career, including working as an award-winning journalist and certified ski instructor. She moved to Silverthorne in 2013 after vacationing in Summit County since the 1970s. Contact her at sdnknopf@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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