As celebrities like Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and Kyrie Irving have promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories to their millions of fans — and former president Donald Trump dined at Mar-a-Lago with a Holocaust-denying podcaster — American Jews have faced harassment, vandalism and violence.Since a gunman stormed Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue four years ago, killing 11 men and women in the deadliest rampage against Jews in U.S. history, researchers have recorded a steady acceleration in prejudice-fueled acts.Over the past two months, someone jumped an older Jewish man in New York, yelling antisemitic slurs and “Kanye 2024”; someone else tagged tombstones with swastikas at a Jewish cemetery in suburban Chicago; someone else spray-painted “Jews Not Welcome” near the entrance of a Maryland high school; someone else passed out fliers in Los Angeles blaming Jews for the coronavirus pandemic.“So no, a billboard calling out Jew hate isn’t an overreaction.” Antisemitism had reached Lyons only in insidious ways — like when people tossed off comments about Jewish lawyers.White supremacist networks co-opted his words, and photographers captured men raising their arms in Nazi salutes while draping over a Los Angeles freeway a banner that read: “Kanye is right about the Jews.” Red graffiti on one of the defaced Jewish graves outside Chicago read: “Kanye was rite.” Across town from the Lyons home, Rabbi Jessica Lowenthal tracked the hate speech with dread."