According to my Facebook Memories, one year ago today, I shared two posts about a rise in antisemitism – one having to do with Dave Chapelle’s SNL monolog and the other having to do with Swastikas spraypainted on a fence in Bethesda, MD.
Two years ago today, I got sucked into an argument with a Dutch antivaxxer who believed that not being allowed to enter the Anne Frank House without a QR code (showing proof of being vaccinated against COVID) is exactly like what Anne Frank experienced, even doubling down when multiple people called her out.
Seven years ago today, I was posting about Swastikas and the rise in antisemitism and other forms of hatred following the election of Donald Trump. One of the posts I wrote that day was a rant about the increase in hatred, which resulted in a thread with 167 comments – many of which, were gaslighting and minimizing the issue.
11 years ago today, I was posting about Southern Israel being hit by such an onslaught of Hamas and Islamic Jihad rockets being fired from Gaza that a friend opened his summer camp in the north so that 100 kids from the south could have a break from having to constantly run to bomb shelters. Three people were also killed that day by a direct rocket hit on their home in the town where my husband grew up and where my brother-in-law still lives with his family – a town that has frequently experienced rocket alarms over the years.
