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Wiesenthal Center Releases Top 10 Worst Anti-Semitic Incidents of 2020
The Simon Wiesenthal Center unveiled its list of top 10 worst anti-Semitic incidents in 2020 on a December 29 Zoom call.
Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action Agenda at the Wiesenthal Center Rabbi Abraham Cooper said that while it was tough to limit the list to only 10 incidents this year, the COVID-19 pandemic was the number one anti-Semitic incident in 2020. Cooper said that the pandemic has been “weaponized” against minority groups, particularly Jews and Asians. As an example, he pointed to anti-Semites’ calls to infect Jews with COVID-19 in what became known as the “Holocough.”
Jewish Groups Condemn Attack of Jewish Man at Kentucky Chabad
Chabad of the Bluegrass in Lexington, Ky. Source: Screenshot via Google Maps.
Several Jewish groups condemned the attack against a Jewish man at a Kentucky Chabad during a menorah lighting on December 12.
Rabbi Shlomo Litvin of the Chabad of the Bluegrass in Lexington issued a media advisory on December 13 explaining that just before they lit the menorah, an unidentified male drove up to the Chabad House and started shouting cuss words and anti-Semitic slurs from his car. A community member then stepped in between the driver and the house, prompting the driver to grab the member’s arm, drag him for a block and then run over his leg before driving away. The community member insisted that the menorah be lit before seeking medical help; his injuries are not believed to be life threatening.