At a Hanukkah celebration last month, President Biden stated: “Today we must all say clearly and forcefully: Anti-Semitism and all forms of hate and violence in this country have no safe harbor in America.”
But simply saying it, no matter how forcefully, does not appear to carry much weight against the increasingly evident support among many black Americans for ideas and voices espousing violence toward Jews. Black and Hispanic youth report higher rates of anti-Semitic views than among white youth on the alt-right.
Unfortunately, much of the pushback so far treats the problem of anti-Semitism like an issue for classroom discussion, curable by tackling ignorance and rudeness. This approach doesn’t appear especially effective against the loose slurry of ideas borrowed from sources like the Nation of Islam and Black Hebrew Israelites, tinged by both far-left villainizing of privilege and far-right fears of “replacement” by minorities.
Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post
______________________
Hannah Meyers is director of the policing and public safety initiative at the Manhattan Institute. Adapted from City Journal.
Photo by goglik83/iStock