ANTISEMITISM RESURGENT: - MANIFESTATIONS OF ANTISEMITISM - IN THE 21 ST

Of those 9,065 reported hate crimes in 2021, 4.1 percent were because of the offenders’ religious bias.4 Breaking the number down further, the ADL recorded 2,717 antisemitic incidents throughout the United States in 2021, representing a 34 percent increase from the 2,026 incidents recorded in 2020.5 In the first half of 2021, antisemitic attacks rose in conjunction with protests against Israel. [...] The emergence of wealthy Jews in Europe— particularly the Rothschilds—gave rise to the notion that rich Jews manipulate global events, which was later codified in The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. [...] In the early days of the outbreak in the United States, an Orthodox Jewish attorney became Patient Zero in New York state, making the New York Jewish community among the first to contract and spread the virus.18 Within the white supremacist sphere, accusations swirled that Jews were either directly responsible for the transmission of the virus or were holding back a cure to maximize profits.19 In. [...] In October 2019, the Brussels criminal court orders Nemmouche and Bendrer to pay a total of €985,000 to the families of the four victims.89 − January 7, 2015 – January 9, 2015 Brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi launch a deadly assault on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing 12 in the name of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). [...] Stunning is considered an abrogation of the laws of kosher slaughter (“shechita” in Hebrew) because the animal is no longer in perfect health.121 In both Jewish and Islamic ritual slaughter, a sharp knife is used to cut the trachea, esophagus, and the carotid arteries of the throat in one fluid motion, causing instant death.