Accidental thread on Wiley tweets:

I am Jewish. The anti Semitic tweets from Wiley don’t just make me sad or angry.

They chip away at my feeling safe.

I worry how many other people might secretly think the same as him.

So part of my day today will be checking Twitter and hoping to see good people calling this out.

But I’ll also be dreading the tweets defending him.

And when I see one, I’ll worry how many likes it has and what that means more people feel about Jewish people.

And sometimes, against my better judgement, I’ll look at the twitter profiles of those tweeting support. I’ll scroll through, see more hate and then get myself off Twitter.

My grandma keeps her mezuzah indoors. (A mezuzah is a Jewish prayer inside a case and put usually on the entrance to a home.)

She moved it indoors years ago and told me it was safer for people not to know she was Jewish.

She tells me stories of the anti semitism she faced as a child and growing up. I always feel these stories carry a warning.

I want to think that she carries the fear of her generation and that I don’t have to share those same worries.

But increasingly, when I see tweets like this (in a long line of troubling anti semitism I have witnessed and experienced over years), I worry her warnings are more relevant than I’d hoped.

My mezuzah is also indoors.