Unfortunately, the past six or seven years has seen antisemitism become rampant across America- and the rest of the world.

Now, TheDonald is NOT the prime causal agent, but he definitely has provided permission for those who have harbored such sentiment to be more vocal, visual, and active.  (You do know that TheDonald wants to know why most of the Jewish population reviles him and his attitudes.  Maybe it’s all the anti-Semitic rants he spews, or having Thanksgiving weekend dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes (a holocaust denier and anti-Semite? Not to mention his “both sides” Charlottesville comments.)

Actually, what TheDonald has done is to afford the expounding of such hate by  folks with serious power.  A century ago, it was Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and Father Coughlin.   They caused the back alley tropes to resonate across the world.  Now, its a former President, a major pop  star (Kanye West, ‘Ye’), and the world’s richest man (Elon Musk), among others stirring up vocal- and lethal- antiSemitism in this century.

So, I wasn’t surprised this past weekend when I traveled to the heart of MAGA (sic) country that I would have to experience a very long and troubling anti-Semitic attack.  Involving the local police.  (No, I won’t go into details.)  The fact that I had  experienced manifold attacks over my life meant that this one event wasn’t going to traumatize me indefinitely.

But, this pervasive anti-Semitism is returning America to its attitudes of old.  Where UC Berkeley – supposedly a liberal bastion- is cited for Anti-Semitism.  And, where businesses are reluctant to hire Jewish applicants- in other words, back to the old days when banks wouldn’t hire Jewish folks, neither would Texaco, Ford, and a slew of other businesses.

Now a new survey (Resume Builder) has found that 1 in 4 hiring managers across American will not hire the Jewish applicant.  After all, these hiring managers are convinced that Jews have too much “power and control”.  The banks are heavily flavored with anti-Semitism (38% of their hiring managers won’t hire Jewish folks), as is true for the technology business sector.  (29% of the employees feel it’s ok to harbor anti-Semitic bias– and express same- at the workplace.)

The Society for Human Resource Management  (SHRM) had found a similar trend in employment practices back in 2021, right after the attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

This is going to require continued effort over the next generation to counteract the permission that TheDonald offered the haters, letting them think this was a normal, proper attitude.