1) Someone ripped my mother's mezuzah off her doorpost. She lives in a nice development with nice neighbors. Even though nothing will happen to the perpetrators, she reported it to the police, who thanked her for doing it, and they labeled it a hate crime.

2) I know that I, and some others, post often about this garbage, and some may roll their eyes at yet another post regarding it, but I'm going to keep posting it. Antisemitism is VERY REAL and on the rise.

3) You might think that having a mezuzah vandalized is not a big deal, but it is. Someone's home and beliefs were violated. Is there such a thing as a "Small hate-crime"? The vast majority of hate crimes are against Jews, so is there a level of acceptance?

4) This will probably be ignored just like Jewish students being relentlessly targeted in universities across the nation.

5) Ignored like how Jews are regularly attacked on the streets of some cities, even big ones with large Jewish populations, like New York, where @NYCMayor has done absolutely nothing to stop it.

6) Europe is a cesspool of antisemitism now. Jews are regularly attacked and even told to hide their Jewish identities.
Online groups target Jews. The triple parentheses around a name was used by antisemitic groups to identify Jews. I put mine there to make it easy for them.

7) If you see antisemitism, you need to call it out. You need to blast it so people see. This should be for everyone, but especially other Jews. If someone calls out antisemitism, believe and support them. We shouldn't be saying this in a vacuum.

8) I know the tendency for Jews is to not want to make waves. But let me tell you something, it doesn't matter "How Jewish" you define yourself, like the Nazis before them, anti-Semites don't differentiate levels. You're either not a Jew or you are, and the object of their hatred

9) And please don't say this is due to one person, or one politician. If you believe that, you're naive or willfully ignorant. It's been growing for the last dozen years or so. I always say that antisemitism knows no party affiliation. There are plenty of Jew-haters out there.

10) From subtle antisemitism, like groups that show support to all diverse groups but exclude Jews, to more overt things like physical and verbal abuse, or even ripping someone's mezuzah off their door, antisemitism is very real and it's time to attack it head on.

#Antisemitism