An anti-Semitism campaign launched in New York

In connection with the recent boom in anti-Semitic attacks, New York authorities decided to launch an advertising campaign. Its goal is to allow the Jews living in this city to feel more comfortable. This publication writes Gazettco.

Launched on February 18 by the city’s Human Rights Commission, the campaign consists of four advertising posters. Each of them depicts photographs of Jews living in New York, and a statement: “Jews from New York have the right place. Anti-Semitism - no. ”

Advertising will appear on the Internet, as well as in three orthodox editions - “Khamodiya”, “The Jewish Press” and “Mishpakh Magazine”, but with the image of Jews from different walks of life.

Dana Sassman, Deputy Commissioner for Countering Anti-Semitism, helped design the campaign. In her opinion, the Jewish communities "feel especially vulnerable and are looking for allies, solidarity, support." “We hope this campaign addresses some of these issues and this fear,” she said.

Advertising posters depict Jews from different parts of New York: Yosef Rappaport, a Hasid, a Brooklyn resident and community leader; Laura Shaw Frank - Bronx resident and Orthodox feminist; Marquez Holly is a Manhattan resident, Jewish, and LGBT community.

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According to Rappaport, he agreed to participate in the campaign after criticizing the city for clearly expelling New York Jews from previous actions on other topics. Yosef said that he is actively working on social networks. “Sometimes I justly or illegally complain that there are advertising materials in New York for all kinds of things, tourism and everything else, showing a variety of people, but they hardly ever show Hasidim, men or women,” he said . Rappaport added that it was difficult for him to refuse to participate in this campaign. He also expressed hope that the campaign “will give the desired effect, making us visible, showing that we are.”

Shaw Frank, in turn, expressed concern in a JTA email regarding recent anti-Semitic attacks in her area. She decided to join the campaign because it "seemed to her something concrete that I could do, and not just feel helpless."

Holly said he hopes the campaign will be useful in more than just fighting anti-Semitism. “I hope this campaign will not only remind the public of this, but also remind us that our community is multifaceted and that together we are a support for each other in both happy and difficult times,” he added.

The anti-Semitism campaign cost $ 50, city officials said.

The Human Rights Commission has also carried out similar campaigns to combat racism, Islamophobia and discrimination against the LGBTQ community. “The city is responding to the recent spike in anti-Semitic incidents in other ways, including by organizing an educational campaign in schools and setting up a hate crime prevention office,” it said.

As previously wrote ForumDaily New York:

• On February 24, the Jewish Community Center in Albany received threatening letter. The same letters were received by 18 Jewish centers throughout America.
• January 27, 2020, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, a house appeared in Manhattan anti-Semitic graffiti.
• January 6th in New York march against anti-semitism.
• January 2, 2020 more than 90 thousand Jews united at an event in New Jersey to demonstrate strength and unity amid a growing wave of anti-Semitism in New York.
• A brutal attack on Jews occurred in New York before the New Year. Armed machete criminal entered the house of the rabbiduring the celebration of Hanukkah and attacked the guests. All the victims were taken to hospitals, two from the bottom - in critical condition.
• At the end of December-2019 in just a day in New York 4 anti-Semitic attacks.
• Earlier, December 19, 2019, the Jewish parents of students at an elite private school in New York declared growing anti-Semitism on campus. They also accused the administration of inability to recognize and solve the problem.