Watch: Indian Community In US Joins Unity March Against Antisemitism In San Francisco

Last Updated: March 04, 2024, 15:23 IST

San Francisco, California, USA

In a display of solidarity, members of the Indian community in the US stood alongside others in San Francisco on Sunday as they joined the “unity march” against rising cases of antisemitism.

Sunday’s march for the Jewish community was in response to rising incidents of anti-semitism nationwide in the wake of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Israel’s Ambassador to India, Naor Gilon said he was moved by the support extended to the Jewish community by the Indian diaspora.

“So moving. Got it from a friend in the US. Indian community came to show its solidarity with the Jewish community yesterday in #SanFrancisco in the Unity March against #Antisemitism. Jews and Indians going hand in hand Israel and India,” Ambassador Gilon said in a post on X.

The unity march commenced at the Embarcadero Plaza and concluded at City Hall, Fox’s KTU reported. The march aimed to unite the Northern California Jewish community and its supporters. This came as two-thirds of Jewish Americans felt less secure in late 2023 than they did a year earlier, according to a survey mostly conducted after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, according to a report by Reuters news agency.

The American Jewish Committee, an advocacy group, last month said the survey was based on telephone and online interviews from Oct. 5 to Nov. 21. Rights groups have noted a rise in antisemitism, Islamophobia and anti-Arab bias, in the US since Oct. 7 when Hamas attacked Israel, sparking Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 30,000.

Some 63 percent of Jewish Americans said US Jews were less secure than a year earlier. About 34 percent said security was the same as in 2022 and 3 percent felt US Jews were more secure. The survey had 1,528 participants, Jews aged 18 or older, the group said.

(With agency inputs)