Antisemitism Rising In Kansas City?!?

Actually . . . We really like a column from today's Kansas City Star and it's worth sharing. 

However . . .

We don't have to look back 10 years for antisemitism in Kansas City. 

Recent pro-Palestinian protests on the Country Club Plaza hosted a great deal of antisemitic chatter that our blog community documented whilst local media politely ignored the rhetoric. 

Also . . .

We're NOT accusing him of antisemitism but it is interesting that a KCMO council dude wears a pin for Palestine and might be something that would've turned away a lot of KC voters when the dude started out. 

Finally . . . 

Let's not forget that one of the most popular "tenant" housing protest groups has also delved into some sketchy rhetoric and their leadership was recently called out over Antisemitism by a Northland council dude.

Accordingly . . . Here's the big picture quote and more deets . . .

"It’s been just 10 years since the shootings at a Jewish community center and retirement community in a Kansas City suburb that killed three. An arsonist burned a synagogue in Austin in 2021. The next year, a man took hostage four members of a Fort Worth-area synagogue. One was released, and the remaining three managed to flee to safety. The rabbi who engineered the escape credited his years of security training."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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