(Jewish Group) There's a cure for the root cause of anti-Semitic attacks (opinion)
Even as the latest horrific wave of antisemitism sweeps the nation, I have reason to be hopeful.
I am the grandson of Holocaust survivors. My grandparents, Stanley and Lusia Igel, and Henry Ferber, escaped the systematic murder machine of the Nazis and their collaborators. But much of the rest of my family did not. They, along with over 6 million other Jews, lost their lives in a genocide that targeted them solely because they were Jewish.
The Holocaust was more than seven decades ago, but the same hatred that animated it, unfortunately, lives on. Less than two weeks ago, The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg was targeted. In the early hours of the morning, an unknown vandal grabbed a can of black spray paint and desecrated our museum with two large swastikas and the message, "The Jews are guilty." It's an age-old anti-Semitic trope; anti-Semitism has been around for thousands of years.
It is one of many such recent incidents across the United States and the world. In Tucson last weekend, the door of the Chabad on River synagogue was vandalized with a swastika and an anti-Semitic slur, police said.
At Florida State University, in Tallahassee, the door of a Jewish student's apartment was similarly defaced last week, with the word "Nazi" scrawled threateningly. Jews eating at a kosher restaurant in Los Angeles were attacked last month with anti-Semitic slurs, including "dirty Jew," and had glass thrown at them, witnesses said (Los Angeles Police Department officials are investigating it as a hate crime).
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