The rise over the last few weeks comes on the heels of a marked overall increase in antisemitism nationwide over the last few years, Anti-Defamation League data shows.
Rodi Glass survived the Holocaust as a child growing up under Nazi occupation in the Netherlands, where she was forced to wear a yellow Star of David sewn to her clothing to identify herself as a Jew at the age of 6. Eight decades later, the 87-year-old Highland Park resident is disturbed by an unsettling spike in antisemitic incidents and rhetoric amid the Israel-Hamas war, marking a particularly threatening era for Jews locally as well as globally.
” To Glass, the flagrant nature of recent antisemitic incidents has been particularly troubling. She noted that “antisemitism has always been around, but now it’s more on the surface.” “Now it’s like the world is on fire,” she said. “Like all the hate is coming to the surface. And I always say that hate is such a useless emotion. Why do you have to hate? It is a scary time in this world. I really am worried what the end of this is going to be.
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