A Rise In Antisemitism by Lillee Jean | Op-Ed 2021
- Lillee Jean Trueman
- Mar 14, 2021
- 3 min read
Updated: Dec 18, 2025
When I was 5, my mom would tell me a story handed down, by all Jewish families, and one lesson. It’s simple. Never tell people you’re Jewish, you’ll pass for being a shiksa.
This article has been updated: November 2024:
Since the original publication of my Op-Ed in 2021, highlighting a facet of organized antisemitic abuse I've faced, the targeted harassment against my family and I, for commercial profit, and further exploitation to cause fear and harm, has escalated into a further sophisticated criminal enterprise. While the 2021 piece highlighted the initial surge of antisemitic rhetoric, the current situation has necessitated the direct involvement of high-level law enforcement. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has officially opened a further investigation into ongoing criminal harassment, A.I. non-consensual AI-generated "deepfake", criminal organized stalking, and identity theft. Due to the cross-border nature of these crimes and the international origins of certain criminal harassment clusters, the investigation has been elevated to include FBI and INTERPOL.
I was born of strong women and strong families: those who fled the Ukraine, Russia, and German persecution. In my head, I thought, “Why would I have to hide my origins? I’m Jewish and Lutheran.
I’m not told to hide my dad’s side, where they fled from Belfort (and Alsace), France...and they were Lutheran? To me, at 5 years old, it seemed like two stories, one in the same, religion out of question. A highlight on brave people, who would not CONFORM.
As time has gone on, it seemed less and less of importance to me, until a few years ago, a stalker began a crusade to destroy myself, and my family, only for the bigger picture of a criminal syndicate to show its face (media agencies are behind the campaign to "Rid Lillee Jean of the Earth").
Psychology of Anti-Semitic Behavior
To hate a group of people, just to hate, seems to me like two things: A scapegoat for failure, and a sense of jealousy towards what one has that you don’t.
According in 2021 to the ADL:
Hostility toward Jews dates to ancient times, perhaps to the beginning of Jewish history. From the days of the Bible until the Roman Empire, Jews were criticized and sometimes punished for their efforts to remain a separate social and religious group — one that refused to adopt the values and the way of life of the non-Jewish societies in which it lived
Due to the fact that Jewish people refused to conform, they were hated, feared, and persecuted. Even enslaved (Obtained 2021 - https://www.bl.uk/learning/cult/inside/goldhaggadahstories/enslave/enslavement.html) in Egypt, because,
“[the]…Pharaoh was still worried that his Israelite slaves would rise up against him.”
5-year-old me would look at this and say, “That’s history!” Almost 20-year-old me looks at this and says, “This is becoming history again…”
What I Have Faced
What I have faced is the normalization of Nazi-like behavior, and the acceptance of hating a religion, and race, just because. I have faced persecution on a level of beyond petty rumors, but of an actual life force, as an analogy. The normalization of such behavior and the acceptance of hating a religion and race has moved beyond the realm of "rumors" and into the territory of real-world harm.
This persecution has been an attempt to dismantle an actual life force through isolation and the constant mocking and endangerment of a family.
There is no "free speech" in coordinated endangerment of lives, the theft of identity for profit, or the use of antisemitism to incite real harm. This is not a "two-sided" conflict; it is a documented history of victimization where the perpetrators initiated the assault.
Lillee Jean