(Jewish Group) Why antisemitism is still a problem
Utah tech entrepreneur Dave Bateman resigned from the Entrata board last week just hours after sending an antisemitic email to business leaders and government officials claiming that Jews are behind “a sadistic effort … to euthanize the American people.”
In the email, which was first reported by Salt Lake City’s Fox 13, Bateman claimed that “the pandemic and systematic extermination of billions of people” will pave the way for the Jews “to consolidate all the countries in the world under a single flag with totalitarian rule.”
Although Bateman’s email sparked widespread outrage and condemnation, experts said that the incident was unsurprising. Despite the strides American Jews have made in recent decades, antisemitism is deeply embedded in our culture, in general, and in the business sector, in particular, they said.
In theory, American Jews — a group that once faced educational and professional restrictions and widespread prejudice — have come a long way. Jews now attend the nation’s top universities, including schools that once sought to restrict their admission; Harvard has even had a Jewish president.
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