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Record Breaking Levels of Anti-Semitism, Increases Up to 500 Percent

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A 19 year old man from Portsmouth, NH was charged with criminal threatening after threatening to kill a local rabbi and burn down the synagogue. When they read his charges, he smiled.

July was a record-setting month in Australia for anti-Semitic incidents:

ECAJ immediate past president Jeremy Jones told the AJN that the July figure of 141 incidents, a five-fold increase on the number of incidents in an average month, was not yet finalized and “can go up or down.”

Often using "criticism of Israel" as a pretext, British MPs are speaking of an explosion of anti-Semitism throughout the UK:

Anti-Semitic incidents have risen threefold following the start of the conflict in Lebanon, said Gardner, a spokesman for the CST, an organization whose roots stretch back to the 1930s battles with Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists in London's East End. July was the third-worst month on record.

In Montreal, following the firebombing of the Hasidic school this past Shabbat in the haredi neighborhood of Outremont, fears of anti-Semitism are on the rise:

"Historically, we know there is often a connection between tension in Canada and what is happening elsewhere," said Rabbi Reuben Poupko, a member of the city's Jewish community security council. But "it's a fair question to wonder whether or not the gathering of 15,000 Quebecers under the flag of Hezbollah, unfortunately further legitimized by the presence of politicians, whether that creates an atmosphere where fanatics draw the conclusion that violence against Jews is somehow acceptable."...

The number of reported anti-Semitic incidents more than tripled this July compared to the same month last year.


The Baltimore Jewish Times writes of heightened fears of anti-Semitism from "Caracas to Stockholm".

While three French teens were being sentenced for the brutal beating of a Jewish teenager last August, simultaneously a bomb was placed in front of a synagogue in Bastia, on the French island of Corsica. The Corsican Jewish community is one of the smallest in Europe, only 15 members.

And of course we already know about the mandatory classes in Russian Orthodox Christianity being implemented in Russian schools -- sending waves throughout the Jewish communities there as well.

More proofs of the eternal truth of the words of the Passover Haggadah, b'chol dor va'dor, omdim aleinu l'chaloteinu -- in every generation, people rise up and try to destroy the Jews.

And G-d saves us from them. May we merit His continuing to do so.

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