Since August 2017, Charlottesville has been synonymous with bigotry. Joe Biden claims the clashes inspired him to run for the Presidency. The Justice Department announced white supremacists are the most significant domestic threat. If you’re Jewish, this is where threats to you are coming from.

The infamous touch-light Neo-Nazi march through the University of Virginia Campus consisted of somewhere between 100 and 250 participants. As I pointed out at the time, the melee the next day with protesters arose from the mishandling of the situation by the authorities. The after-incident reports support this view. Still, Charlottesville remained the template for antisemitism.

This view now seems quaint. Instead of a few hundred, at best, marching to express anti-Jewish bigotry, we have thousands of students parading their antisemitism on our most prestigious campuses. Tens of thousands rallied against the existence of Israel in the nation’s capital. Instead of worrying about a small number of mental cases on the fringe, Jews now fear their neighbors, especially their children. 

The media focuses on reports of non-existent hospital bombings and mortality figures supplied by Hamas while hardly mentioning the 200+ hostages held by the terrorists. This oversight, even though many of the captives are American citizens, is puzzling.