Given the current license to hate climate it s no surprise that the number of anti Semitic assaults while hardly in league with those suffered by Jews under fascist or militaristic regimes has suddenly swerved upwards Last year a Jewish frat house at Emory University was defaced with swastikas while in liberal Madison Wis some 30 Jewish homes were similarly defaced The number of anti Semitic assaults has gone up dramatically from coast to coast 