The first nine months of 2017 saw a 67-percent increase in antisemitic incidents in the United States over the same period in 2016, new data from the Anti-Defamation League has shown.
Those incidents include physical assaults, acts of vandalism and bomb threats to Jewish institutions, according to the ADL’s Audit of Antisemitic incidents, which was released on Thursday.
A tally found that from January 1 to September 30, there were 703 incidents of harassment, including 162 bomb threats, 584 incidents of vandalism, 52 of which were against Jewish institutions; and 12 physical assaults.
We are astonished and horrified by the rise in antisemitic harassment, incidents and violence targeting our communities,” Jonathan Greenblatt, who heads the ADL, said in a statement.
“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,” he said.
