At the opening to the Anti-Defamation League’s conference on anti-Semitism, the organization’s national director says anti-Jewish hatred in America is worse than at any point since the 1930s.
Jonathan Greenblatt says currents on both the far right and far left have led to anti-Semitism’s resurgence. He mentioned the platform of the Movement for Black Lives published this year that accused Israel of genocide.
Jonathan Greenblatt, national director of the Anti-Defamation League (Courtesy of ADL/via JTA)
Greenblatt also detailed the anti-Semitic attacks that rose during the 2016 presidential campaign, mentioning the appointment of Stephen Bannon as the chief strategist to President-elect Donald Trump. Bannon was the chairman of Breitbart News, a website Bannon called the “platform for the alt-right,” a loose movement of the far right whose followers traffic variously in white nationalism, anti-immigration sentiment, anti-Semitism and a disdain for “political correctness.”
“The American Jewish community, our community, has not seen this level of anti-Semitism in mainstream political and public discourse since the 1930s,” Greenblatt says. “Sadly, it is only being matched with escalating levels of hate toward other minorities today.”
— JTA
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