How worrying is the far-right’s ‘Day of Hate’ stunt? – An Internet announcement is troubling, but the idea of Jews cowering in response and the mainstreaming of antisemitism by the corporate media is the real problem. | JNS.org

(February 24, 2023 / JNS) Far-right hate groups have got the Jewish community scared and with good reason. After the murderous synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh in 2018 and Poway in 2019, extremist antisemitic hate ceased being a theoretical problem. Random viral videos of hateful acts and speech, vandalism as well as those public events in which white supremacists and their allies are able to generate publicity—like the August 2017 neo-Nazi “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va.—have all combined to create the impression that such groups not only present a credible threat to Jewish security but that they have considerable support.