The facts that the targeted politician, Ari Hoffman, is an Orthodox Jew, that the threats are laced with blatantly antisemitic comments and that this is happening amid a rise in reported assaults on Jews across the United States is distressing.
AJC—the first American Jewish organization to establish a post-Holocaust presence in Germany—has invited thousands of American Jews to Berlin next year for the first-ever AJC Global Forum in the German capital, marking 75 years since the end of World War II.