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I dont think of Delaware as a center of anti-Semitic hate. But on the night of Aug. 26, the University of Delawares Chabad house was burned to the ground, causing an estimated $75,000 worth of damage. According to the state fire marshal, the fire was intentionally set. While the universitys president acknowledged that the site was an active part of UDs religious, faith, and spiritual diversity the fire marshals office found no indication that this was a hate crime. Gov. John Carney called the crime upsetting.
Only three years earlier, in 2017, Gov. Carney was showing his solidarity and support while visiting the Siegel Jewish Community Center and its Albert Einstein Academy primary school in Wilmington after the JCC received five bomb threats in the space of two months. In February of this year, the same JCC reported that its still receiving bomb threats. Delawares Jewish community is pushing for an expansion of the states hate crime laws.
The pathway from experiencing casual hatred to receiving bomb threats to living communal life under siege to suffering defaced and burned down buildings is all too wearyingly familiar for Jews in Delaware, as well as in the traditional urban centers of American Jewish life. Horrifying footage from Brooklyn on August 29 showed two Haredi men being rammed by a caran incident that seems no more politically determinable than the regular anti-Semitic chanting or vandalizing of Jewish property at Black Lives Matter marches, or white supremacist bomb threats.
Two weekends ago, a sign reading The Jews Want a Race War appeared over the I-405 freeway in Los Angeles. It was dangled by a man named Jon Minadeo Jr. One sign turned into two, with the adjacent sign reading Honk if you know. According to witnesses many cars honked. The sign was eventually removed.
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JudyM
(29,122 posts)May they become vestigial sooner rather than later.
Behind the Aegis
(53,833 posts)Sadly, too many are too quick to dismiss anti-Semitism, Jewish lives, Jewish culture, and Jewish history; instead, rewriting it to fit their own bigoted agendas as they see fit.