Anti-Semitic incidents down in U.S. for second straight year

Pakistan is full of Islamo-fascists haters.Why?Whose fault is it that Pakistan is a corrupt cesspit. Is that a good reason to try to force Islamists on Israel by feigning interest in freedom and justice? When you fix it at home,tell the world your success story .Do not worry we will not hold our breath.

So Jews are no longer in vogue for these pathetic hate groups, who have nothing better to do with their sad little lives than to persecute minorities. Who will be next on their list and what is wrong with those people?

The amount of anti-Arab sentiment in the US now is the real "antisemitism." If you want to talk about a people who are nervous and still afraid from 911 then look at them. Kicked off a plane for wearing a turban? Many things just like this. I might take up the Jewish "graveyard desecration" cause if I felt like US Jews were poor and disenfranchised but we all know this is just not the case.

Thank you for the reply. That is what I thought, actually. I know for instance that there was a slogan about striking a ZHID and saving Russia. So it is similar to what happened to the word derived from the Latin NIGER, NIGRA, NIGRUM, which simply means "black," with the result that I, a Latin teacher, always get frazzled when that word appears in one of the lessons! Words are not bad, people are.

I live in Mexico, and my country and the rest of Latin-America are Pro-Palestine, they do not know what really happen in the middle east, I try to be neutral, is not confortable try to defend Israel always, In my town my family is the only jew family, when something bad happen in Israel they grumble, I never main, I am jew and will always be jew.

Lebanese from Canada: It can be anyone, my farsi friend, Bachi, in Chiago, or an Iranian Jew in Berkeley who is selling arabic products in his store with a few passover goods stashed in between (who sees he is Jewish, not that Ahmed guy). Who sees these are my friends and not anti-semites. It is called ignorance.

Very well thought out post,Hala. I think ZHID became associated with the insult simply because of the manner of its pronounciation and the underlying negatrive meaning and attached words that accompany it. Example dirty Jew; stinking Jew, F____ing Jew, etc. Also, because, at least in Europe and the middle east there is more Jew-hatred than anything-else-hatred, the use of the word Jew by a non Jew sometimes gives rise to suspicions that are groundless and meaningless.

Then whom?

Dear Marilyn: True, it seems like a drop in the bucket. But you know the story of the little boy who, on a beach littered with washed-up starfish, was picking them up one by one and throwing them back in. When a man asked: "Why do you bother? There are so many, what difference will it make?" The little boy replied: "It made a difference to the one that I just threw in." One of my students, a sweet young lady, told me recently that some idiots had painted swastikas and "Kill the Jewish b-----s" on the door of their house. She was so upset. Even one incident less would make a big difference to the victims.

The discussion on how some words are offensive to some persons could take volumes of paper. One example is the "n" word, which is actually harmless in itself, since the Latin word for "black" is NIGER, NIGRA, NIGRUM, from whence derive Italian NERO, NERA, French NOIR, NOIR and Spanish NEGRO, NEGRA. Interestingly, the French also have the word NEGRE, NEGRESSE to refer to persons, but that is now taboo. The word for Jew in some Slavic languages is ZHYD, derived, through palatalization and other changes, from YEHUD (a person from Judaea). it can also mean "Yiddish," as to describe the language. But I have discovered that it is now forbidden to use the word ZHYD and its variants and instead use a form of the word "Hebrew," like YEVREY and variants. It is still all right to say JUIF, JUIVE in French and JUDIO, JUDIA in Spanish. If anyone knows why ZHID became an insult word in Polish, Ukrainian and Russian, I would be interested in knowing.

In that "somewhere, World" where you live, it's time you were taught that AIPAC does nothing much about fightingf Jew-haters in the USA: they promote a careful and sensible pro-Israel agenda. It's the Anti-Defamation League and the AJC that do some fightingof anti-semitism but, the neat thing about Americans, EL Birawi, is that we kind of police ourselves and the downturn in anti-semitic incidents is largely because as a society we feel it is wrong. This is something quite different from, say, the textbooks in Arab classrooms; or the incitements of imams in mosques both of which promote anti-Jewish behavior. We do agree on one thing and that is that the less hatred around; the better. One way you could help that is to understand things before you comment incorrectly about them.

I'm a Jew, and I actually prefer 'Jew' instead of 'Jewish' to refer to a person. Several years ago, a Jewish acquaintance of mine got mad at some for using the word 'Jew'. He basically said the same thing: that the other guy was anti-Semitic. People who claim that are crazy, so don't pay attention to them. They're too sensitive. On the other hand, it is possible for some to use it in a disparaging tone of voice, but any word can be used that way. In summary: the term is NOT anti-Semitic.

The trouble with new immigrants looking to make money in the USA (i.e. illegals) instead of looking for the traditional haven from religious persecution is that they may have a mafia orientation. Authoritarian personalities may make it easy for them to switch from one authoritarian anti-semitic religion to another, anti-semitic authoritarian Islam. Terrorism is always a possibility and just the danger to Jews is always a possibility.

... because I referred to someone as a jew. i was told i was anti-semite. i asked how? and why? i was told that instead of 'jew', i should have referred to him as 'jewish'. That to use the the word 'jew' is anti-semitism. it should be 'jewish'. when i asked for the explanation of this, i was not given. so, you guys on this forum, could you please tell me since when the use of the word 'jew' has become anti-semitism? and why?

And he worked so hard at it?

And that despite all the extra effort & overtime put in by Sullivan, Ballistic, etc Tsk Tsk Better luck next year Yakoub!

Right now the hate groups are attacking the Hispanics but they blame the Jews for America's immigration policies from 1965 on. So expect an upsurge in anti-Semitic acts sooner or later.

Glad to hear the anti-semitic incidents are down in the US and we hope it will go down all over the world. But leave it to AIPAC and to generate more funds to run its operation, it will instigate activities to rally around the flag.

It does not mean decreasing of anti-Semitism but you merge in by appearance and majority shift in hatred. You are not visible so much. As far I remember yarmlke is hold in boxes at synagogue. Hispanics remind on Middle Eastern people. It is most likely hard to distinguish in evening, without talking to and so on.

Unless you had family exterminated in the camps like mine were, you consider it whining. I consider it keeping a check on trends. Never Again.

According to you, Jews should not be concerned with incidents of anti-semitism? Statistics like this speak volumes about american society, as do your views that hate-crimes don't matter. I guess this is to be expected from someone as ignorant as you... after all, it was legal to hunt aboriginals in Australia until the early 70s. As far as massacring a native population and keeping it subjugated as second-class citizens, Australia takes the cake... not to worry though, Marilyn doens't care about hate-crimes.

The hate groups are dangerous and may be trying to increase the anti-semitism among the hispanics and new immigrants. Locked doors and other security measures might help prevent incidents in community centers but don't consider this a lessening of anti-semitism. The reason, an ever changing demography is always subject to learning or retaining anti-semitism. The christian evangelists zionists have been trying to recruit new members from these groups and I hope they succeed because they will teach them to be tolerant of the Jews and Zionism. Some bring the anti-semitism they learned from the old world and they have to be watched and re-educated to be tolerant. The success of the evangelists will help keep america free of anti-semitism.

"The Jews" are all whining, Marilyn? All 5 million+ Jewish Americans? Sounds like your message should be counted as report number 76. JW New York City

With a population of 300 million people it beggars belief that the Jews would whine about 75 reports of people not liking Jews. It would have taken a great deal to dredge that up.

Despite all the smear campaign the sympathy tide will gradually change as people see ever more clearly against whom Israel is fighting, and the almost impossible mission of surviving surrounded by neigbours who dedicate their existence to hating you.