A new report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found that anti-semitic incidents The number of cases in the US increased by more than 200% compared to the same period last year following the Hamas massacre in Israel on October 7.
The ADL Center on Extremism reports more than 10,000 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded in Israel following a Hamas terrorist attack – the most recorded in any single year since the group began tracking them in 1979. In the year before October 7, the center recorded 3,325 incidents.
“Today, we mourn the victims of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, one of the worst massacres of Jews since the Holocaust,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a press release accompanying the report’s publication. Symbol of the year.”
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Greenblatt said, “Since that day, Jewish Americans have never had a moment of respite.” “Instead, we have faced Shocking number of anti-Semitic threats And experienced calls for more violence against Israelis and Jews everywhere.”
Of the approximately 10,000 incidents recorded, the ADL divided them into three different types: more than 8,000 verbal or written harassment, more than 1,840 incidents of vandalism, and more than 150 physical attacks.
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About 12% of these incidents occurred on college campuses, compared to about 200 in the same period last year.
About 20% of those incidents occurred at “Jewish institutions”, including synagogues and Jewish centers, but about 30% occurred during anti-Israel rallies. ADL did not clarify how much overlap was found between these different groups.
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However, the group clarified that it recorded 8,873 anti-Semitic incidents in 2023 alone, representing a 140% increase from the previous year, and that it will have final figures in 2025 as it surveys partners, law enforcement and victims. continues – from where he expects this figure to continue to rise.
Experts and monitoring groups have expressed concern over this Increasing number of anti-Semitic incidentsNot only in the US but also in Europe: the Community Safety Trust in the United Kingdom reported in March 2024 that it recorded at least 2,093 anti-Semitic incidents across the country between October 7 and December 13, 2023.
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The group called it “the most ever reported” in a period of about two months since it began recording such incidents in 1984.
“I think people are feeling stressed and nervous, especially with the marches happening every Saturday,” Jake Wallis Simmons, editor in chief of the London-based Jewish Chronicle, told Fox News Digital from England at the time.
Thousands marched against Israel in London on Saturday, and observers complained of the large number of anti-Semitic images and slogans displayed at the protests.
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Canada has also seen a sharp increase in incidents around Jewish institutions, including schools, community centers and synagogues, as well as many of the country’s universities.
one in statement on x, Israel’s Consul General in Montreal, Paul Hirschhorn, warned, “Montreal is now considered one of the most dangerous places in the world to be Jewish. 9 times Jewish community buildings have been shot at or attacked with petrol bombs – Synagogues, schools, community centers. That’s where people were identified with petrol-bombs near synagogues (and luckily I think they were prevented from carrying out their plan). Left and said they would do it on their own.”
An anti-Israel sign with the phrase “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea” at a protest near Tulane University in New Orleans. The phrase has been criticized as a call for the destruction of Israel. (Credit: Ryan Zamos)
“Statistically, hate crimes “There has been a 132% increase in Canada, with the majority of crimes targeting the Jewish community,” Casey Babb, who teaches courses on terrorism and international security at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs in Ottawa, told Fox News Digital. Year.
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Babb said, “In fact, this may be the most anti-Semitic time in the history of our country.” “I would go so far as to say that Canada, for a number of reasons, has become one of the most hostile countries in the West for Jews.”
Fox News Digital’s Benjamin Wenthal contributed to this report.
