Tuchman talks challenges to fighting hate at ADL meeting
Aryeh Tuchman, associate director for the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism, said at the Cleveland region ADL annual meeting Feb. 21 that the U.S. faces the biggest challenges on racism and anti-Semitism in decades, in part because “shaming” people for prejudicial remarks doesn’t work as well as it used to.
Tuchman, who spoke to about 90 people at The Temple-Tifereth Israel in Beachwood about “After Charlottesville: The State of Hate in the U.S.,” authors the ADL’s annual audits of anti-Semitic incidents.
Noting his remarks were based on his views rather than the ADL’s, Tuchman said a culture of online trolling and unabashed racists and anti-Semites entering the public sphere, who in the past may have hidden such views, has contributed to the shift. He specifically noted the “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August and its aftermath.
Aryeh Tuchman, associate director for the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism, said at the Cleveland region ADL annual meeting Feb. 21 that the U.S. faces the biggest challenges on racism and anti-Semitism in decades, in part because “shaming” people for prejudicial remarks doesn’t work as well as it used to. Tuchman, who spoke to about 90 people at The Temple-Tifereth Israel in Beachwood about “After Charlottesville: The State of Hate in the U.S.,” authors the ADL’s annual audits of anti-Semitic incidents. Noting his remarks were based on his views rather than the ADL’s, Tuchman said a culture of online trolling and unabashed racists and anti-Semites entering the public sphere, who in the past may have hidden such views, has contributed to the shift. He specifically noted the “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August and its aftermath. He specifically noted the “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August and its aftermath.