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How to deal with antisemitism at work

I work at Walmart in the American south. I feel that I have faced increasingly antisemitic behavior over the past two years. I began working at Walmart in May of 2023, and I was not very observant, as I come from a very loosely observant household. After October 7 I began wearing a yarmulke and I moved my days off to Friday and Saturday in an attempt to become more observant in memory of those that died. Since this I have faced unpunished antisemitism from coworkers, and escalating tensions with management. This includes but is not limited to my hours worked being changed for the week on Friday evenings (Walmart payroll works Friday-Friday,) and reports of antisemitic comments being met by responses from management which range from a meeting with the store manager over comments which “disrespected a coworkers Germanic heritage.” To being told not gossip when the coworker who reported me for that told me that he did so because I was too Jewish to make the kind of jokes I was making (which were anti-Nazi but only ever in reciprocation to others comments). I am at a loss for what to do at this point and I need guidance for what to do going forward. I have not had an easy go of it in life. My father is severely mentally ill, and my mother is not able to help support me, so I need this job to make it by.

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