Thread by @Delafina777

Please pay attention. This month:
-the Sixth & I synagogue in Washington DC was vandalized with swastikas
-the sanctuary of the Nessah synagogue in LA was vandalized
-Anti-semitic graffiti, including"time to pay," was spray-painted on the sign of American Jewish University (1/x)

-Swastikas were painted at Westwood Elementary School
-"Similar graffiti" to the Westwood vandalism (so, I guess more swastikas?) was reported at Milken Community High School (all three of these school incidents were in LA)
(2/x)

-A man broke into the women's dorm at Yeshiva University and set three fires
-Four people (a police officer and 3 bystanders) were murdered in a shooting at a kosher market in NJ
-A group of teenagers attacked two Jewish children, 6 and 7, in NYC
(3/x)

-A 65-year-old man was punched and kicked by a man yelling anti-semitic slurs in NYC
-A crowd yelled anti-semitic slurs at and threw a beverage on a 25-yearo-old man in NYC
-A 56-year-old man was punched by a person in a group yelling slurs in NYC
(4/x)

-A man was hit in the face in an (alleged) anti-semitic incident in NYC
-A 40-year-old man dressed in Hasidic clothing was punched in the face in NYC
-A woman yelling anti-semitic slurs hit a mother walking with her 3-year-old child
(5/x)

-A woman slapped 3 young Jewish women while yelling anti-semitic slurs in NYC
-A man walked into the Chabad headquarters in NYC and threatened to shoot the place up
-Signs saying "It's okay to be anti-semitic" were stapled to telephone poles in Vermont
(6/x)

-5 people were stabbed at a rabbi's house in New York
-The Glen Cove Holocaust museum in New York was vandalized with swastikas
-A man threatened an 11-year-old boy and two adult men with assault and yelled anti-semitic slurs at them in a New York Costco
(7/x)

-An Indiana University fraternity was suspended for assault and anti-semitic & racist slurs.
-The San Dieguito Academy in California reported anti-semitic vandalism
-Syracuse University in New York is taking additional security measures after a string of racist/AS incidents
(8/x)

All of that was this month.

And, like, that's just from scrolling through my FB feed and looking at news articles various friends have posted, and it's not counting anything that wasn't from a major, mainstream news source.

That's leaving out all the personal reports of antisemitic bullying at schools, signs posted in neighborhoods, flyers left with the free local papers & magazines in grocery stores, all that stuff.

As I keep saying, unlike in the movies, in real life this stuff isn't accompanied by dark clouds on the horizon and ominous music to tell you Shit's Getting Bad.

This is what it looks like. Increasing amounts of this stuff, and this stuff getting normalized.

anyway, I dunno, a lot of this happened during Hanukkah and I'm just very tired and very sad

Actually, one more thing: it's *really* easy to focus on the 9 incidents in NYC in one week, because that much of a cluster is deeply upsetting, and it's NYC! The capital city of Jewish America! And those incidents happened during Hanukkah! And there was a stabbing!

And that focus on the cluster of incidents in NYC is leading to a lot of ugly sentiment about Black people and a lot of hot takes about Black antisemitism. People way more qualified than me are talking about that--check my timeline for retweets of good threads.

But I did this whole list, and didn't just retweet articles about 9! incidents! in! NYC! this! week! because this is not happening in a vacuum.

Other marginalized communities might *reflect* rising anti-semitism, but they're not where it's *coming* from.