

These separate incidents can be categorized as passive, like the mailers, or aggressive, such as threatening harm against Jewish Americans.


And so when we have people at the highest positions of government, the Trump administration … using rhetoric that is laden with hate and fear - of course that’s going to trickle down and impact the way neighbors treat each other,” said Amol Sinha, executive director of ACLU-NJ. “It is something that I think the polarization of our politics has contributed to. And Asian Americans in North Jersey reported receiving advertisements from former Trump affiliate Stephen Miller’s new organization America First Legal, which purport that President Joe Biden’s diversity, equity and inclusion job-hiring initiatives discriminate against white and Asian Americans.Īs Election Day nears, white supremacist tensions are bursting at the seams. The Proud Boys, a white supremacist group, have announced they’ll attend a reproductive rights, pro-LGBTQ rally in Franklin. Synagogues in New Jersey are at high alert after the FBI in Newark tweeted Thursday there was a credible threat against them, following antisemitic remarks in popular culture discourse.
