U.S. adults do not agree on what behaviors are anti-Semitic, according to a December poll by . The most common things Americans said were anti-Semitic were denying the Holocaust, denying Jewish people the right to self-determination and boycotting Israeli products in protest of the existence of Israel.
Anxiety in the Orthodox Jewish community has risen following an increase in anti-Semitic attacks. Chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League Jonathan Greenblatt said the incidents were becoming the 鈥渘ew normal鈥 during a December interview with the . There have been multiple attacks in the New York area over the past several weeks, including five people being stabbed during a Hanukkah celebration at a Hasidic rabbi鈥檚 home and a mass shooting at a kosher supermarket in New Jersey, which resulted in the death of two Hasidic Jews.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has called the attacks 鈥渄omestic terrorism.鈥
鈥淭his is a national phenomenon that we are seeing and it鈥檚 frightening and it鈥檚 disturbing,鈥 Cuomo said at a news conference. 鈥淚f anyone thinks that something poisonous is not going on in this country, then they鈥檙e in denial.鈥
