the sad and deeply troubling reality is that james von brunn cannot be dismissed as an aberration but is connected to a whole hate promoting movement that results in violence against jews in america and around the world on practically a daily basis. the anti-defamation league recently issued its annual audit of anti-semitic incidents. they are to be congratulated for its careful research ton an unpleasant but absolutely necessary subject, the ugly facts that the report documents makes for painful reading. in 2008, they noted 1,352 reported incidents of vandalism, harassment, and physical assaults on jewish people or jewish-owned property nationwide. sadly and shamefully my own state of new jersey had more reported anti-semitic incidents, 238, than any other state in the union. the attack on the holocaust museum is the most ominous aspect of this evil wave we have seen world wye and in our own con-- worldwide and in our own country. the holocaust museum is a unique institution. it is a memorial, a center of holocaust scholarship and promoter of tolerance. it is a very powerful symbol o