Published: 17 July 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Jews fight back against the anti-Semitic hashtag #JewishPrivilege (Chicago Tribune)
Twitter users took on the anti-Semitic hashtag #JewishPrivilege, a variation on the old smear that Jews are somehow controlling money and politics, and that everyone else is suffering as a result.
Jews and allies retweeted the hashtag thousands of times, with ironic references to the “privilege” of losing relatives to Nazi death camps, fearing for your safety in your house of worship or being showered with pennies on the school bus.
White supremacists trigger Twitterstorm by using #JewishPrivilege hashtag to bait Jews (Haaretz)
Sarah Silverman, Josh Gad and David Simon among those pushing back by sharing their experiences of anti-Semitism
Canadian far-right politician calls for removal of Jews from Canada (Jerusalem Post)
"What we need to do, perhaps more than anything, is remove these people, once and for all, from our country"
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Dozens of gravestones vandalised in Europe’s oldest surviving Jewish cemetery (Times of Israel)
At least 50 gravestones, including that of ‘Maharam’ Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg, smeared with greenish paint in medieval graveyard in Germany’s Worms
Conservative Polish President Duda wins second term after tight race (Times of Israel)
Populist incumbent’s campaign engaged in anti-Semitic and anti-LGBT rhetoric, warning voters that his liberal opponent would sell out Polish families to Jewish interests
Photo: Sarah Silverman speaking at the Beverly Hilton on July 27, 2017 (Willy Sanjuan/AP)
