If you feel like you’ve been reading about more and more anti-Semitic attacks and vandalism and rhetoric, it’s because you have. We have a president who subscribes to the kind of conspiracy thought that begins and ends with a cabal of Jewish bankers ruling the world from some secret lair. According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), who just released their data on such matters, the numbers of aggressive actions classified as anti-Semitic have been spiking since you-know-who took office.
As you can see in the chart above, the ADL counted 779 total acts of anti-Semitism in 2016, ranging from harassment to assault. This year that number has already reached 1,299.
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“We are astonished and horrified by the rise in anti-Semitic harassment, incidents and violence targeting our communities,” said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director. “While the tragedy in Charlottesville highlighted this trend, it was not an aberration. 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. For over a century, ADL has worked tirelessly to protect any community targeted by hatred – and we’re not about to stand down now. No matter how emboldened these fringe elements of society may feel, they will never threaten our mission.”
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These incidents took place across the country, but consistent with prior reports, the states with the highest number of incidents tend to be those with the largest Jewish populations. These include New York State (267 incidents); California (197); Massachusetts (117); Florida (69) and Pennsylvania (58).
According to the ADL the number of anti-Semitic actions began to increase after the Nazi march on Charlottesville, and are possibly the result of our conservative government’s refusal to condemn that act of transparent racism.