>> 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 TUNNELLED 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.