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“In the last weeks, our nation has seen a series of anti-Semitic attacks targeting and terrorizing American Jews. We have seen a brick thrown through window of a Jewish-owned business in Manhattan; a swastika carved into the door of a synagogue in Salt Lake City; families threatened outside a restaurant in Los Angeles; and museums in Florida and Alaska, dedicated to celebrating Jewish life and culture and remembering the Holocaust, vandalized with anti-Jewish messages. These attacks are despicable, unconscionable, un-American, and they must stop.”

— President Joe Biden

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“I’ve served as a congregational rabbi for a decade or so. My leadership has coincided with an ominous rise in antisemitic incidents from vile online threats to the killing of 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018. During that time, I’ve listened to hundreds of conversations detailing real life encounters of antisemitism. I’ve heard diverse opinions and a wide range of experiences about its nature in the present day — from a swastika drawn in the bathroom of a school to microaggressions in the workplace and everything in between. But nearly every conversation I hear about antisemitism has one, surprising thing in common: in every instance where an antisemitic act has been committed, our culture — and conversations surrounding these hateful acts — tend to diminish or even deny antisemitism.”

— Rabbi Diana Fersko | MSN.com

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“Trump’s dinner with the musician Ye, who’s made a number of antisemitic remarks, and a notorious Holocaust-denying internet streamer [Nick Fuentes] is just the latest example of antisemitism’s increasing visibility in electoral politics… Trump is not the first Republican candidate or official to spend time with [Fuentes] and later claim not to know about his very outspoken, antisemitic beliefs.”

— Reporter Lisa Hagen | NPR.org