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Anti-Defamation League Reports on Anti-Semitism in Florida

May 1, 2019 - 9:15am

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released its “Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents”  report on Tuesday and found fewer incidents taking place in Florida thanks to a dip in non-criminal harassment. 

“There were 76 verified incidents of anti-Semitism in Florida in 2018,” the ADL noted.“Vandalism and assaults remained at their 2017 levels, while reported incidents of non-criminal harassment dropped. Nationally, there were 1,879 reports of incidents targeting Jews and Jewish institutions in 2018, the third-highest year on record since ADL started tracking such data in the 1970s.”

Sheri Zvi, the ADL’s Florida regional director, weighed in on the report. 

“Although Florida’s decline in non-criminal incidents of anti-Semitic harassment is encouraging, the absence of a similar drop in assaults and vandalism is troubling,” said Zvi. “No one should be a victim of anti-Semitism, but anti-Semitic assaults and vandalism, in particular, have an impact far beyond their individual targets, striking fear within the entire Jewish community and beyond.”

Despite that, Zvi insisted there has been more “anti-Semitic vandalism focused in the political sphere, with the use of Nazi and Holocaust imagery” in Florida. 

“As we prepare for the 2020 election cycle, we call on all leaders, public officials, and candidates to firmly take a stance against any act of anti-Semitism or bigotry whether by supporters or opponents, because bigotry has no place in our civil discourse,” Zvi said. 

This included the 2018 gubernatorial campaign as the ADL reported a swastika spray-painted on a campaign sign for Republican Ron DeSantis in Tallahassee and swastikas sprayed on signs for Democrat Philip Levine in Tampa. 

The ADL reported the majority of anti-Semitic incidents in the Sunshine State last year took part in South Florida.

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Hmmm,... What are the "stats" on "anti white man vandalism and assault" victims, I wonder...

When you are so crass as to try and introduce other issues into this VERY SERIOUS ISSUE, you should look in the mirror and wonder what you would actually do if you and your family were targets of violence, bullying, and other types of abuse JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE A CERTAIN RACE OR RELIGION. As Christians--we have CHOSEN TO RECEIVE CHRIST AS OUR SAVIOR, so when we face this type of thing, WE BELIEVE HE IS WITH US IN IT. However, as a JEW, born a JEW, where do we go? What do we do? Whose fault is it that I was born a JEW? And when the terror begins--WHERE DOES A JEW GO TO HIDE? HOW CAN WE SAVE OURSELVES AND OUR PRECIOUS FAMILIES? So, if you are a WHITE MAN, who has been assulted--you must admit that you have recourse in a myriad of ways. But, if you are a white man, who happens to be a JEW... I have to ask you, "What then?"

AS A JEW YOU GO TO JESUS...ISN'T HE A JEW THAT DIED FOR YOUR SINS? WASN'T HE BORN OF MARY AFTER BEING RAPED BY GOD? WHY CAN'T YOU AS A JEW TURN TO YOUR KIND? JESUS IS YOUR KIND BUT YOU APPEAR TO NOT WANT HIM TO SAVE YOU. WHAT'S UP WITH THAT? DO YOU FEEL GUILTY BECAUSE OTHER JEWS HAD JESUS MURDERED? JEW CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD TO HELP YOU. BUT THINK HE ONLY HELP POOR HELPLESS PEOPLE THAT MOST TAKE THE ADVANCE OF.

When you are able to see this world, you might find it uncomfortable, take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish-American_organized_crime, when you can grow up, and realize that you have been taken, a fool, now it is time for you to grow up.

Once again... That is NOT the topic here. Yes, Jews commit crimes. Muslims commit crimes. Whites commit crimes. Blacks commit crimes. Some people in EVERY ethnic group commit crimes. But that is no reason to say an entire group of people deserve to be threatened, bullied, and harassed. WHAT ON EARTH IS WRONG WITH YOU? Are you so narrow-minded that you cannot see the injustice here? It sounds to me like you have anger issues.

WHY ARE THE JEWS COMMITTING SO MUCH EVIL ON THE PALESTINES? STEALING THEIR LAND BY SAYING GOD GAVE IT TO YOU. JEWS CLAIM THEY HATE HITLER, IF SO WHY ARE YOU BEING HITLER TODAY?

Let's clear the air, I am not a fan of Jewism, I do not like their religion, I do not accept their beliefs, I reject their world view, I reject every Rabbi, Catholic priest, every Muslim mullah, and every idiot who attempts to proselytize, for starters may we begin the process of Justice.

those are only for racist idiots from NY...

There's an "anti-" of one kind or another out there for everybody and everything. Nobody and no thing is sacrosanct.

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