Deutsche Welle: Four in ten US Jews feel less safe now than they did a year ago. The White House has adopted an action plan in this situation. In 2021, there were an average of seven anti-Semitic incidents per day in the United States, the highest in recent years.
The Anti-Defamation League fears the number will be even higher in 2022. US President Joe Biden has said that anti-Semitism has no place in American society.
His administration formed a task force of various agencies at the end of 2022. Its task will be to develop the first US national strategy to prevent anti-Semitism. The American Jewish Committee and the White House recently asked the anti-Semitism envoys of some European countries for advice on how to eliminate the anti-Semitism problem in America.
Germany’s Anti-Semitism Commissioner Felix Klein said that the US Constitution is very liberal on freedom of speech. Countering anti-Semitism is a challenge. Holocaust denial in Germany carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison.
The American Jewish Committee’ and the White House recently asked the anti-Semitism envoys of several European countries for advice on how to eliminate the anti-Semitism problem in America.
Author David Irving was sentenced to two years in prison in 2019 under a similar law in Austria. But such examples are unheard of in the United States, said Klein. In 2018, 11 people were killed in an attack on a synagogue in Pennsylvania, USA. It was the deadliest incident of anti-Semitism in the country.
