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.”
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