Washington – The investigative journalism nonprofit ProPublica has produced an interactive map that chronicles over 300 anti-Semitic crimes across the United States from the past few months.
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The graphic, which was published Wednesday, is a companion to an article ProPublica ran last week, “In an Angry and Fearful Nation, an Outbreak of Anti-Semitism,” which found evidence of over 330 incidents of anti-Semitism between last November and early February.
Both are part of ProPublica’s “Documenting Hate” series, which the company launched last year to “gather evidence of hate crimes and episodes of bigotry from a divided America.”
The interactive map links each pin to local news reports from across the country, allowing users to access the original news stories for each instance of anti-Semitism. About 160 of the incidents involve vandalism, such as spray-painted swastikas and other defacement of public spaces.
Other organizations have documented spikes in anti-Semitic incidents since the election of Donald Trump as president in November. The Southern Poverty Law Center recorded 100 incidents in the first 10 days after Trump’s election. The New York Police Department recorded 43 anti-Semitic incidents in New York City in the month after the election.
JTA has reported in recent months that dozens of Jewish community centers across the country have been threatened with over 150 phoned-in or emailed bomb threats.
The head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, said at a conference in November that public discourse in the United States on anti-Semitism was at its worst point since the 1930s.
Trump was dogged by assertions during the campaign that he failed to condemn the anti-Semitism displayed by some of his supporters, such as former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. After avoiding the topic while being asked about it multiple times at news conferences and interviews, Trump condemned the attacks on JCCs late last month.
This map has to be FAKE NEWS, thought up by the liberal media. Each purple dot represents a minyan of liberal Yidden imagining Trumpf-Bannon inspired bomb threats, death threats, swastika attacks and bricks through windows! None of this ever happened! Uh, sir, pardon me, which way to the selektion?
Welcome Herr Trump and your alter ego Herr Bannon, Juden unerwuenscht
So,……. What has been done???
In 1958, the Klan bombed a Synagogue in Atlanta, causing extensive damage. In the late 1950’s, there were many anti-semitic incidents in NYC, such as attacks on Synagogues. From 1968-1970, at least one Shul weekly in NYC, was being defaced and vandalized. Jews have been attacked on the way to Shul, for decades, in various cities. Swastikas, threatening telephone calls, bomb threats, physical assaults against Jews, etc., have gone on for many years, and have been swept under the rug, by Federations, and other so-called Jewish defense organizations. When Rabbi Meir Kahane called out those organizations, the same groups, who are know attacking Trump, tried to bury Kahane. As recently as 2006, we’ve seen police brutality and violence by the NYPD, against Jews in Borough Park, when they protested the manhandling of Mr. Schick, the owner of Schick’s bakery in Brooklyn. The point that I’m trying to make, is that thousands of anti-semitic incidents in the USA, going back decades have occurred in the USA, long before Trump was ever on the scene. Yet, the news media is using those attacks, as a tool, to try to bring Trump down. Sadly, there are some on this site, who are doing the same.
I don’t think it is only one person.