The federation is working with other partners to insure there is high-quality education in schools about the Holocaust and other genocides. “They (middle schoolers) know about a lot of things but often have the maturity to go with it.” “Like grownups say, enough information can be dangerous,” Kahn said. According to the audit, one report include information about a middle school student who said to a Jewish eighth grader, “Do you prefer gas or bullets?” and “Bring back Hitler so he can kill all the Jews.” Five of those events were harassment involving references to the Holocaust, Nazis or Hitler. But the number of incidents in middle schools grew from two in 2018 to seven in 2019. There was a 50 percent decrease in high school incidents in 2019 compared to 2018, and vandalism decreased from 16 incidents in 2018 to 13 in 2019. That includes the distribution of flyers from the Ku Klux Klan with racist and anti-Semitic language, tweets from a former Wisconsin congressional candidate, and vandalism of synagogues.
There were 10 incidents involving hate groups last year, according to the audit.
This suggests a shift in people becoming bolder and more threatening when expressing anti-Semitic views.ĭata has shown it is not that more people are anti-Semetic, it is that the people who are are expressing themselves more publicly. Kahn explained that most incidents involved written expression, but now events are becoming more personal by targeting one person or institution. She said this type of harassment is different than what they have seen in the past. Kahn started her position roughly 10 years ago, and took up the task to look back and analyze what the data has been tracking. “Part of its role since it started in 1939 has been to monitor and respond to anti-Semitism,” Kahn said of the council. Elana Kahn, the director of the federation’s Jewish Community Relations Council, said she couldn’t pinpoint when exactly the council started the audit but knows the audit has been done for decades. Incidences of direct harassment and assault jumped from 16 in 2018 to 40 in 2019, and more than half of those were harassment and threats. The audit shows an increase in anti-Semitic incidents such as harassment, threats, and assault Hate group activity references to the Holocaust, Nazis, and Adolf Hitler conspiracy theories and derogatory references to Israel and Zionism.Īll have increased significantly, according to the audit. There were 73 anti-Semitic incidents reported in 2019. The Milwaukee Jewish Federation’s council conducted an audit of 2019 anti-Semitic incidents and it shows a 55 percent increase in incidents from 2018 to 2019, and a 329 percent increase since 2015.
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