Will society ever truly believe in the raise of White Nationalism in the US or just gasp for air for a few seconds only to become distracted by something else happens- PB/TK
ISIS Hunter: Time to Wake Up to the White Nationalist Terror Threat – RITA KATZ 03.09.17
I was born and raised Jewish, and have witnessed anti-Semitism firsthand. My father was executed in a public hanging in Baghdad by Saddam Hussein. His crime: being a Jew. My grandmother, at 52 years old, was murdered by the same thugs, for the same reason.
Later in my life, still a child, I lived in Israel, where the Holocaust was a cornerstone of our education. We grew up in an atmosphere of normalized war as the Arab-Israeli War and others clashes unfolded before us. We saw our very lives and existence as a nation in peril.
My husband and I moved to the United States, after we had three boys, largely so they could be free of such threats and feelings. But over my past 20 years here, I am still hated—even personally—because of my heritage.
On white nationalist forums, members threaten Jews and exclaim that they must protect themselves from “Filthy Jew Rita Katz,” now that I am tracking what they say online. Such rhetoric seems fitting to a recent wave of anti-Semitic hate crimes across the country, including messages on subway windows, the desecration of hundreds of graves in Jewish cemeteries in St. Louis and Philadelphia, defacements to buildings, bomb threats to Jewish centers, and a plot to shoot a synagogue “in the spirit of Dylann Roof.”
While we don’t yet know who has committed some of these recent crimes, they give more than enough reason for a long-outstanding discussion about this country’s white nationalist movement. Having monitored jihadist and far-right threats for years, I’ve always been troubled by how little attention the latter receives from both authorities and the media.
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