Anti-Semitism Monitor April Findings
April was the month when the global anti-Semitism news became largely associated with conspiracy theories that linked the Jewish people to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
April was the month when the global anti-Semitism news became largely associated with conspiracy theories that linked the Jewish people to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the vast majority of Americans, the potential collapse of our public health systems and predictions of economic Armageddon have left us frightened and uncertain. But there are some who have found a silver lining in our coronavirus fears: the conspiracy theorists, the racists and the anti-Semites.
The level of shocking anti-Semitic violence in the United States declined in the first month of the year, but the aftershocks from Jersey City, Monsey and Brooklyn continued.
If you want to understand the nature of resurgent anti-Semitism in the United States, as well as to confront the obstacles to combating it, you could hardly find a more useful guide then by examining the events of the last month of 2019.