(Jewish Group) Growing Antisemitism in the US Is Seeping Into the Workplace
At a recent working lunch, Renee Fellman was told that someone wouldnt network with her because shes Jewish.
Fellman, whos a corporate turnaround consultant based in Portland, Oregon was stunned not by the mere existence of antisemitism, she said, but that her brush with it was so overt.
I doubt theres more antisemitism now than 10 or 20 years ago, said Fellman, who previously had more subtle or difficult to interpret experiences of discrimination, such as snubs. People are just expressing it. Its become OK to say it.
Across American culture, politics, and even business, expressions of antisemitism have grown louder in recent years. Its not just high profile statements made by the rapper Ye and basketball star Kyrie Irving or politicians increasingly cozying up to White supremacist groups. Incidents of antisemitic harassment, vandalism and assault reached a 42 year high in 2021, the most recent year with available data, according the Anti-Defamation League. And theres evidence that discrimination is seeping into the workplace, too.
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