% >> Frederica: WE LEAVE IT THERE.
% THANK YOU FOR YOUR THOUGHTS.
% >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
% >> Frederica: IN OTHER STATE
% NEWS, ANTI-SEMITIC ACTS
% INCREASED BY MORE THAN 450%
% ACCORDING TO THE MILWAUKEE
% JEWISH FEDERATION.
% FOR ONE HOLOCAUST HISTORIAN ONE
% ACT CAME DIRECTLY TO HER DOOR
% STEP.
% HERE'S OUR STUDENT JOURNALIST %
WITH THE STORY.
% >> IN THE MORNING AROUND 8:00
% AND I LOOK DOWN AND SEE THIS
% OBJECT AND PICKED IT UP AND I
% WAS QUITE HORRIFIED AND SHOCKED.
% >> HER SHOCK AND HORROR CAME
% FROM DISCOVERING AN ANTI-SEMITIC
% FLYER ON HER HOME IN KENOSHA.
% >> DOWN THE STREET TO 75th
% STREET.
% >> THE FLYER CLAIMS JEWISH
% PEOPLE CAUSED THE COVID-19.
% IT WAS IN A PLASTIC BAG AND
% WEIGHED DOWN BY ROCKS AND A
% PENNY.
% AS A HOLOCAUST HISTORIAN SHE'S
% USED TO STUDYING ANTI-SEMITISM.
% >> I CALLED THE POLICE AND
% OFFERED THE INFORMATION AND
% PROVIDED THE PAMPHLET AND SAID
% THEY ALREADY HAD IT AND WERE
% INFORMED OF IT.
% >> THE KENOSHA POLICE DEPARTMENT
% WERE ABLE TO FIND THE
% PERPETRATOR AND FINE HIM JUST
% OVER $4,000 NOT FOR A HATE CRIME
% BUT LITTERING.
% ANTI-SEMITICS INCREASED BY 450%
% AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES THAT
% SPREAD DURING THE COVID-19
% CAUSED AN INCREASE IN CASUAL
% ANTI-SEMITISM.%>> IT'S BECOME
SO NORMALIZED AND
% SO UBIQUITOUS AND PEOPLE ARE
% COMFORTABLE EXPRESSING THOSE
% FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS AND
% ATTITUDES.%>> SHE SAYS AS THE
PURPLE STATE,
% WISCONSIN DEMONSTRATES HOW
% POLITICAL DIVISIVENESS CAN
% PERMEATE.%>> IT'S CREATED TU
NNELLED VISION
% TYPE OF THINKING AND HAS MADE IT
% DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE TO BE ABLE
% TO REACH ACROSS DIVIDES AND SEE
% EACH OTHER AS HUMAN BEINGS.
% >> JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
% VICTIMS OF HATE CRIMES.
% >> YOU SEE AN INCREASING
% RELUCTANCE OF PEOPLE TO CALL OUT
% ANTI-SEMITISM WITHIN THEIR OWN
% POLITICAL CAMP.
% >> PROFESSOR GOLDBERG SAID
% ANTI-SEMITISM STANDS OUT FOR
% SUBTLETY AND PERVASIVENESS AND
% SAID THERE'S TROPES THAT STILL
% EXIST IN CULTURE.
% >> IN THE MIDDLE AGES JEWS WERE
% ACCUSED OF POISONING WELLS AND
% BLAMED FOR THE PLAGUE.
% THOSE MOTIFS BECAUSE THEY'D BEEN
% AROUND A LONG TIME AND STILL
% CIRCULATE ON SOME LEVEL MAKE
% JEWS SUITED FOR THE SCAPE GOATS.
% >> IT ALIENATES PEOPLE FROM
% THEIR COMMUNITY.
% HER EXPERIENCE IN KENOSHA HAS
% MADE HER DISTRUSTFUL OF OTHERS.
% >> MY FATHER WHO WAS A HOLOCAUST
% SURVIVOR WARNED ME ANTI-SEMITISM
% IS ALIVE AND WELL.
% IT'S UNDER THE RADAR AND COVERS
% BUT THERE.
% ALWAYS BE CAREFUL.
% IT'S GOING TO COME BACK.