'Unfortunately, as the FBI has already indicated, is that synagogues and mosques are, in particular, vulnerable right now to potential attacks,' Oren Segal said.
Members of the American Jewish community are sounding the alarm about rising antisemitic sentiment following Hamas' attack on Israel last weekend.in 2022, according to the Anti-Defamation League.on Monday showing that anti-Jewish hate crimes increased by more than 37% in 2022 - the second-highest number on record and the highest number in almost three decades.
ABC News' Linsey Davis spoke with Oren Segal, the vice president of the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism, about the new hate crime data and the Jewish community's concerns amid the war. OREN SEGAL: We're very concerned that the rhetoric that we're seeing in our public discussion at rallies around the country in the aftermath of the massacre that we saw in Israel will only make people engage in more of that activity. In fact, we've already seen spikes in antisemitic incidents reported to us at ADL, and this is a trailing indicator. We know that in the weeks and and months ahead, there's going to be even more reporting for this moment in time.
SEGAL: Some of the biggest concerns that I'm hearing are the over 250 rallies that have occurred throughout the country and in major cities and smaller towns that have essentially included language that celebrates, glorifies and legitimizes these Hamas terrorist attacks. Nothing will make people feel less vulnerable than knowing the people in their community are celebrating the murder and abduction of children and the elderly, even if it's 10,000 miles away.
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