Jewish Leaders Fear Antisemitic Celebrities Are Normalizing Hate: ‘Everyone Needs to Be Concerned'
Mike Pence, Other Republicans Calls on Donald Trump to Apologize for Dinner With Antisemite Nick Fuentes
Jonathan Greenblatt, national director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, said it is astonishing and alarming that two of the nation’s leading purveyors of antisemitism were “breaking bread with the erstwhile head of the GOP.” “What’s even more dangerous than Nazis with torches chanting, ‘Jews will not replace us,’ is when we have political leaders and others espousing those same conspiracy theories in increasingly normalized ways,” she said.
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has been suspended after posting an image of a swastika inside the Star of David. Musk announced last week that his “amnesty” plan applied to accounts that haven't “broken the law or engaged in egregious spam.” Online safety experts predict that the move will lead to a rise in harassment and hate speech.
In April, the Anti-Defamation League announced that its annual tally of antisemitic incidents reached a record high last year. The organization counted 2,717 incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism in 2021, a 34% increase over the previous year and the highest number since the ADL began tracking the events in 1979.
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