{"id":74737,"date":"2018-10-30T12:05:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74737"},"modified":"2018-10-30T13:57:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T17:57:13","slug":"gr-ira-rifkin-pittsburgh-surprised-many-but-not-those-who-repeatedly-reported-rising-american-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74737","title":{"rendered":"(GR) Ira Rifkin&#8211;Pittsburgh surprised many: But not those who repeatedly reported rising American anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 15 years ago I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/article\/anti-semitism-in-the-21st-century\/\">wrote a piece on anti-Semitism<\/a> for an online Jewish publication that began as follows: \u201cIt is an irony of Jewish life that it took the Holocaust to give anti-Semitism a bad name. So widespread was international revulsion over the annihilation of six million Jews that following World War II anti-Semitism, even of the polite variety, became the hatred one dared not publicly express. But only for a time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh underscored how anti-Semitism is no longer the hatred one dares not publicly express \u2014 though that\u2019s been obvious for some time to all who cared to recognize it. I&#8217;ve tried to make the point in numerous GetReligion posts.<\/p>\n<p>The details of what happened in Pittsburg, on the Jewish Sabbath, are by now well known, thanks to the wall-to-wall coverage, much of it sympathetic, detailed and excellent \u2014 including their understanding of the Jewish religious and communal aspects.<\/p>\n<p>The extensive coverage is entirely appropriate, I\u2019d say. Because more than just a display of vicious anti-Semitism, what happened in Pittsburg was an American tragedy. It underscored how threatened the nation is today by our corrosive political environment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2018\/10\/29\/pittsburgh-surprised-the-nation-but-not-the-many-american-jews-who-repeatedly-reported-on-rising-anti-semitism\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 15 years ago I wrote a piece on anti-Semitism for an online Jewish publication that began as follows: \u201cIt is an irony of Jewish life that it took the Holocaust to give anti-Semitism a bad name. So widespread was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74737\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[429,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judaism","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74739,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74737\/revisions\/74739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}