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Neville ChaimBerlin
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I don’t believe a Hitler magnitude situation is the only thing that would render us unsafe. It was Avi that kept making the Holocaust references earlier. What I was responding to is the idea that “Jews felt safe in Germany then the Holocaust happened. Jews feel safe in America now, therefore it’s going to happen again.” This is a completely absurd concept.

The views I’m bringing are only numbers based; that’s how I operate. Statistically, you are more likely to be the victim of Anti-Semitic violence in Israel. The only arguments to the contrary have been conspiracy theories. Like I said earlier, the rate of incidents in the US would have to rise by a lot to make it less safe than Israel. The rates of assault tied to anti-Semitism have actually gone down in the US if you look at the ADL publications. They tout that the rates of incidents have gone up overall, but a closer look shows that that’s only because they are now including internet harassments as anti-Semitic incidents, the overwhelming majority of which are anonymous “trolling,” which is wrong, but highly unlikely to lead to anything dangerous.