#Letters to the Editor — May 26, 2021

The Issue: A 97-year-old Holocaust survivor who received anti-Semitic messages on TikTok.

The verbal attacks on Tik Tok on a 97-year-old survivor of the Holocaust should come as no surprise (“Survivor Tormented,” May 25).

Anti-Semitism has become a perfectly acceptable and popular past-time. Attackers have been given free rein to spew their hatred without fear of retribution.

After all, when it comes to the issue of anti-Semitism, our leadership remains silent, and the mainstream media provide pathetically scant coverage and half-hearted commentary.

It’s a free pass to those who hate. Verbal and physical assaults on Jews will unfortunately continue.

Sheldon P. Hersh

Lawrence

As the daughter of an Aushwitz survivor, I take this horrific rise in anti-Semitism very personally.

It seems as if social-media algorithms do not recognize hate toward Jews and Israel.

The truth is that anti-Zionism is just another word for anti-Semitism. Joseph Goebbels would be so proud.

JJ Levine

Miami Beach, Fla.

Anti-Semitism is showing its ugly face more publicly these days.

The Jewish Holocaust survivor, Lily Ebert, was almost murdered by the Nazis. She is trying to educate the world and stop the vile anti-Semitic abuse.

But by saying, “At least 248 Palestinians were killed” and “12 people in Israel also died,” The Post minimizes the Israeli deaths as a result of Hamas’ actions.

Israelis were running to bomb shelters to hide from direct Hamas rocket attacks on their homes.

Israelis were killed. Hamas members are murderers, just a different kind of Nazi for this generation. Don’t minimize the anti-Semitism.

Lisa Lerner

New Hyde Park

Thank you for pointing out the issue of anti-Semitism, a significant problem in this city and elsewhere, in your front-page article, “Hate’s New Low.” I hope Brooklyn principal Amanda Bueno reads this.

I believe that all lives matter. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that”

If everyone in this country worked toward that end, we would certainly fulfill Dr. King’s vision for humanity.

Martin Garfinkle

Staten Island

Any casual student of history should understand that classical anti-Semitism is a malignancy that always finds a new medium to flourish, tailored to the orthodoxies of the time.

For instance, over the centuries, many Jews were persecuted and even murdered over claims that the blood of murdered non-Jewish children was used to bake matzohs on Passover.

In today’s madness, just slap terms associated with contemporary social-justice movements — “genocide,” “oppression” and “colonialism” to name few — on a democratic nation desperately trying to defend itself in its ancestral homeland from extremist murderous foes, and voila!: Classic Jew-hatred has found its new fertile ground on which to flourish.

Elliot Press

Bergenfield, NJ

The article on the harassment of the Holocaust survivor is heartbreaking. The praise for Hitler reveals a level of ignorance and hatred that is nearly unfathomable.

Let’s keep separate our sympathy for Jewish victims and our acknowledgement of Palestinian victims.

Violations of human rights are deeply immoral, no matter where they occur and no matter who perpetrates them. The current behavior of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is evil, as are the attacks on this noble woman.

Chip Boyd

Cheshire, Conn.

What’s going on in America with the “faceless” cowards of social media spewing anti-Semitic hate?

This country is so polarized, yet the numbskulls in DC do nothing.

Obviously social-media outlets are run by leftists who only censor conservatives.

Kevin Judge

Naples, Fla.

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