According to a recent report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States increased dramatically in 2015, but it is “not clear what may have led to the spike.” Stefan Kanfer comments:
Not a single statement has issued from the Oval Office about attacks on Jews in the United States or on foreign turf. . . . Nor has Obama referred to the uptick in anti-Semitic episodes in academia. . . . Today, the anti-Semitism of the Third Reich continues in the groves of higher education, often cloaked in pro-Palestinian rhetoric. The vocabulary of the academic left brims with agitprop about “Zionist malevolence,” though many countries within rocket distance of the most liberal nation in the Middle East are notorious for the stoning of apostates, rape victims, and homosexuals.
Only the naïve, and the willfully ignorant, could fail to see another reason why anti-Semitism has increased both overseas and in America. The ADL recently did a survey of religious and ethnic bias in 101 countries. Anti-Jewish sentiment was most prevalent in North Africa and the Middle East, where 74 percent of respondents expressed anti-Semitic views. In those countries, millions are taught that Jews are subhuman, or a dangerous and controlling force in geopolitics—or both. Now, many of those millions are pouring into Europe and America—legally or illegally—welcomed by governments that pay scant attention to their background.
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