I have found self-help very effective.
In 1967, as a freshman at a large Midwest university, I was subject to similar abuse from another student in my dorm. One evening he was particularly nasty. I returned the favor with my fists, leaving him lying on the floor in the fetal position bleeding from the face. The football players that lived down the hall broke up the fight and ordered 2 other students to take the offender to the infirmary.
Bottom line: no one messed with me again and the football players became my closest friends. BTW I was 5’7” 155 lbs at the time.
I’m sorry you had to endure this humiliation. Who do these people think they are to bash and make such remarks because of your faith? Never mind the nasty, horrific remarks about Hitler. Horrific!!
Everyone’s a victim.
Some brain dead jerk scratched a little swastica on the car I let my son drive to school around 7years ago. We are Italian-Irish catholic. Back in junior HS I would draw pictures of American planes shooting down nazi planes with swastica on them. Today if I was in school and did that I would be suspended or expelled for A) drawing a gun shooting and B) drawing the crooked cross. Anyway we complained to the asst. principal about the paint damage and he went off on a tirade about HATE CRIME!! I said no, it’s just a retarded jerk damaging my car. “But we must tell the police about their hate crime”. The leftist jerk repeated. I stopped him right there “There are no such thing as hate crimes...only crimes....this is not 1984 where they have thought crimes...Forget about it” and I left. I’d rather deal with the dumb kid who scratched my paint than the administrator who made a fuss about hate.
BTW back in school in the 50s, 60s, I would rank out anyone from a different social or religious background and they would do it back to me...then we all laughed
You didn’t get it as bad as I did, but I got teased frequently in HS for being Jewish. I was the only Jew in my class in a Jersey suburb. The one time I told my parents, my dad told me to suck it up, it won’t be the first time in my life I would have to deal with it, and it wouldn’t be the last,
Wow. I went to public elementary school in the ‘70s, and the Jewish kid around the corner was a friend of mine, and when we made fun of him, it wasn’t for being Jewish. He didn’t mind singing the Christmas Carols, but then again, a couple of Hanukkah songs were thrown into the program, and we all sung those as well. He was only moderately observant (mostly for Passover, when we got a small bonanza of food), and loved having an ice cream sandwich after his hamburger.
There were more Jewish kids in the prep school I went to, and the worst I remember was one kid entertaining himself by throwing pennies and nickels for the Jewish kid (also a friend to this day) to chase, which he did willingly (money is money). No problems other than that in 12 years of school in Connecticut.
I guarantee that as we speak, a lawyer, a judge, and a “married” gay couple are plotting to sue Christian schools millions around the country for refusing married couple boarding and other things.
The Satmar are an effective voting majority in the district, their children do not attend public school, and so they are voting to defund the public schools.
The non-frum minority feel that they are now second class citizens in the town they grew up in.
It's created quite a backlash.
Finally, some actual justice from the courts!
Whereas I don’t usually like to see the victim mentality awarded, I applaud this decision. Antisemitism has been growing in this country, and this is the first thing I’ve read lately that may actually make a difference.