Jew-hatred in Philadelphia exists from the top down (“AJC CEO, Philadelphia Leaders Meet to Address Antisemitism,” March 2).
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has for two consecutive years sponsored official events that by their very nature legitimize Jew-hatred: The city’s participation in the United Nation’s so-called “Day of Solidarity With the Palestinian People,” replete with fist-brandishing posters and terrorist PLO flags – part-and-parcel of a movement to undo and destroy the Jewish state of Israel and endanger Israel’s seven million Jews.
Kenney’s departments, including the School District of Philadelphia, have promoted Jew-hatred and/or have sought to erase Jewish history and heritage. Our organization has documented multiple examples of these in two detailed reports. Government-sanctioned Jew-hatred gives the attacks an official imprimatur and funds all or part of the attacks – making them more impactful.
It was nice of Philadelphia City Council to pass a resolution against antisemitism – though without addressing the city’s own attacks against Jewry it is rather meaningless.
Steve Feldman, executive director, Greater Philadelphia Chapter Zionist Organization of America
The bottom line is that the Democratic party continues to move farther and farther left and as it does so, the police are demonized, pro-Palestinian events occur and crime and inflation zoom. Kenny is just doing what his party’s new agenda is pushing. As crime increases so does Jew and Asian-hatreds since the the police are neutered and the criminal mentality begins to act out its inherent racism. This is a self inflicted wound and it will get worse before it gets better and if we continue to vote for our own destruction it will only get worse.