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Thank you for speaking up in your nicely worded piece.
This is actually an issue that has bothered me for a while. Orthodox Jews have a tendency to view any negative behavior towards them as anti-semitism, when quite often they themselves are to blame. I second all of your points, and could not have phrased them better myself.
I personally would like to take it a step further. With all of the blatant corruption, insensitivity to other religions and ethnicities, among other problems in Jewish communities (not to mention the massive amount of arguments initiated and fought by ‘frum’ Jews), non-Jews simply don’t want to bother with us moving in. That’s not anti-semitism, that should serve as a message to the Jewish community that they’re doing something wrong here. Something tells me that if it was an influx of Modern Orthodox Jews, there wouldn’t be the same resistance.
Crying anti-semitism and making a big deal in the media will not fix this problem. The only thing that will is changing our society for the better.