A concerning amount of antisemitic incidents are happening across the United States. This comes after the U.S. saw a dramatic rise in antisemitic reports in 2021. The Anti-Defamation League is pointing to social media as a root cause and saying combatting misinformation is more important than ever. "These are themes that are driving people to violent action that they are initially seeing online," said Oren Segal who is the Vice President of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism. He said there's already been a shift since Elon Musk took over Twitter. "So Kanye West is the perfect example of how concerning this is and why the Jewish community feels so vulnerable right now. He has more followers on Twitter than there are Jews on the planet earth," said Segal. Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has been dropped by many business partners because of his anti-Jewish comments made on social media. "It normalizes antisemitism and anti-Jewish hate and normalizes that sense of othering of a group of people which is plaguing our entire society right now," said Will Berkovitz who is a Rabbi and also the CEO of Jewish Family Service, which serves those in need in the community, including refugees and those struggling with homelessness. Berkovitz said his organization was targeted by hate speech a couple of months ago. READ THE FULL STORY: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/seattle-jewish-commmunity-reacts-nationwide-antisemitism/281-4ddb2ae0-c685-4ce2-821b-e577f8d0db3a