Blog to monitor antisemitism
Woodbury —The Southern Orange County Antisemitism Watch (SOCAwatch) started up at http://socawatch.blogspot.com on Tuesday. The Woodbury-based blogger has been posting messages “to increase public awareness of antisemitic rhetoric from politicians, media, and ‘grassroots’ organizations in southern Orange County.”
According to its Web site: “Some of the words on this site are hateful. Some perpetuate stereotypes. Some demonstrate great prejudice. I post them here for your review, your commentary, your analysis.
“To me, what is scary is that these words are not necessarily being mumbled by one private citizen to another, but they are being shouted by our political leaders. Our media is dedicating an excessive amount of negative coverage to a minority community. This blog is not meant to inflame a hateful situation. It is meant to lift up the carpet and expose it to the light.”
Several of the first postings reprinted a letter from Spencer McLaughlin, an Orange County legislator, about water supply problems at Kiryas Joel in Monroe.
Another was merely fun. Congratulating the Monroe-Woodbury football team, SOCAwatch wrote: “Good luck in Syracuse! For the first time in history, Jews root for the Crusaders.”
To which “Anonymous” replied: “Can you show proof that this is the ‘first time in history’?”
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