Jon Ossoff condemns antisemitism in Yom Kippur speech
Jon Ossoff spoke at an Atlanta synagogue on Yom Kippur to denounce two incidents of antisemitic graffiti at local high schools.
Jon Ossoff spoke at an Atlanta synagogue on Yom Kippur to denounce two incidents of antisemitic graffiti at local high schools.
At the onset of the holy day on Wednesday, a high school in Cobb County, next to Atlanta, reported that someone had graffitied a swastika and “Heil Hitler” on a bathroom door, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Similar graffiti was found at another nearby high school just days earlier.
The school district did not condemn either incident as antisemitism, instead calling it “hateful graffiti” or “hate speech.”
Ossoff, 34, the freshman Democratic senator from Georgia, told worshippers at the Reform Temple Emanu-El on Yom Kippur that his reaction to the graffiti was informed by the memory of the Holocaust.
Ossoff said his generation was raised “with the words ‘Never Forget’ pressed into our minds.”