Decades after the end of the Holocaust with the closure of Nazi concentration camps U.S. forces helped liberate, the number of hate crimes against Jews in America hits a record high.
"We wanted to publicly proclaim that an anti-Semitic attack against a visibly Orthodox Jew is an attack against all Jews, an attack against all New Yorkers, and an attack against all people of goodwill everywhere," said Eric. S. Goldstein, CEO of the UJA-Federation of New York, who helped organize the march.
A marcher holds a"Stop the Hate" sign while walking across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City with the Freedom Tower behind them. This was part of the effort to support the"No Hate, No Fear" Jewish Solidarity March.Not only are the number of anti-Semitic attacks rising in the U.S. but their severity has also worsened. The 2018 massacre at thein which 11 people were killed by a racist gunman, was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack on U.S soil.
"Being alone and being able to wander alone in the labyrinth of theories, unfortunately, plays very well into historic notion of anti-Semitism, which has really predicated the view that 'Jews are different' and 'Jews are the other,'" he said. President Donald Trump's critics have frequently accused him of helping to fuel far-right attacks and hate crimes in general because of his inflammatory rhetoric and weak condemnation of white supremacists.
In December, Trump signed an executive order to officially interpret Judaism as a nationality as well as a religion in what the administration said was an effort to root out anti-Semitism.and other critics said the EO played into the anti-Semitic trope that Jews have dual loyalty.Newsweek
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