Study shows surge in anti-Semitism in U.S.
A recent report indicates that incidents spiked during and immediately after white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
A recent report shows a continued rise in anti-Semitic incidents across the United States in the first nine months of 2017, including the Charlottesville, Virginia, rally in which white nationalists marched through the city shouting, “Jews will not replace us.”
The study from the Anti-Defamation League shows a 67 percent increase in physical assaults, vandalism, and attacks on Jewish institutions over the same period last year. Specifically, the report cites 1,299 anti-Semitic incidents across the United States between January 1 and September 30 of this year, up from 779 in the same period in 2016. The ADL has counted anti-Semitic incidents in the United States and reported the numbers since 1979.
“While the tragedy in Charlottesville highlighted this trend, it was not an aberration,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL’s CEO, in a statement. “Every single day, white supremacists target members of the Jewish community: holding rallies in public, recruiting on college campuses, attacking journalists on social media, and even targeting young children.”
