Multiple antisemitic incidents reported over the weekend across US May 23, 2021 8:52 am The aftermath of an allegedly antisemitic attack at the Chaverim Congregation in Tucson, Arizona on May 18, 2021. (Chaverim Congregation)
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(JTA) At least four cases of intimidation or assault against Jews have been reported in the United States since Thursday, in a continuation of what many fear is one of the country’s worst spate in years of antisemitic violence.
On Saturday, six men assaulted and punched two Jewish teenagers in Brooklyn on 18th Avenue and Ocean Parkway, reported VINnews. The news site interviewed Mitchel Schwartz, the father of one of the teenagers. One of the men told the teenagers “free Palestine” and made additional references to Israel, the report said.
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The NYPD is already on the case, but let us say it for the record in no uncertain terms: Those responsible for Thursday night’s anti-Semitic violence in Midtown must be brought to justice swiftly and surely, lest fear and hostility become contagious.
American Jews fear they could be targeted due to an association with Israel. For some American Jews, that fear is manifesting in decisions to tamp down their public displays of Jewishness