Kulanu: Antisemitism is growing in younger generations
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Among the youth, negative attitudes about Jews, and negative experiences for Jews, by every metric, are growing, not fading.
Jewish students at El Camino Real Charter High School walkout to protest antisemitic incidents at the Woodland Hills school on Tuesday, February 27, 2024. Sarah Reingewirtz-MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News
BY JONATHAN A. GREENBLATT MARCH 21, 2024 7:00 AM EDT Greenblatt is CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League. He is the author of It Could Happen Here: Why America is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable
Over the course of postwar America, there has been a march of progress in which institutional and societal prejudice against minority groups—from women to African Americans, and the LGBTQ+ community—lessens and opportunities open. This too has been the case for the Jewish community. No longer are there covenants restricting where Jewish families can live or quotas blocking admission to universities. Jews have ascended to the very heights of academia, philanthropy, business, labor, entertainment, and politics.
