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leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
Thu Jun 23, 2016, 02:38 PM Jun 2016

There's a disturbing rise in anti-semitic assaults in the US [View all]

At the historically progressive University of California at Berkeley, the words "Zionists should be sent to the gas chamber" were scrawled in a campus bathroom. At Yale University, a sign noting that "YALE IS A JEW HOLE –LET'S ROUND THEM UP" was found posted near the university's Connecticut campus. At UC Davis, swastikas were spray-painted on the side of a Jewish fraternity house on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

These are just three of the nearly 100 anti-semitic incidents reported on college campuses across the country in 2015, a year marked by a 91 percent spike in anti-Jewish rhetoric and crimes at some of the country's most liberal and progressive schools, according to a new report. But beyond the walls of these learning institutions, the general public has also taken a hit, with its own rise in anti-semitic incidents, according to The Anti-Defamation League, which released its annual audit on Tuesday. And the internet, along with social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, served as a conduit for the dramatic spike in hateful language and violence against people in the Jewish community.

http://www.aol.com/article/2016/06/23/there-s-a-disturbing-rise-in-anti-semitic-assaults-in-the-us/21400803/


I'm posting this here because what's going on on college campuses could be laid right at the feet of the vile bds movement.

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