Antisemitism is a very real problem, and it’s getting worse.

Antisemitic incidents have seen an uptick the past eight months, only six years after the appalling Tree of Life Synagogue shooting by an antisemite that left eleven dead. Scandals involving celebrities like Kanye West and Kyrie Irving show how shockingly little removed casual antisemitism is from the mainstream.

The worlds of politics and antisemitism are crossing over. The current GOP candidate for governor of North Carolina has a history of Holocaust denial and offensive comments about Jews. A host of Republican figures, including former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and current GOP nominee Donald Trump and his son, raced to publicly come to the defense of one of the former president’s supporters who had a history of despicably racist statements. Two years ago, Trump had a friendly dinner with another antisemite, Nick Fuentes, an outright white supremacist who wants “a total Aryan victory” and thinks Adolf Hitler was “really fucking cool.”