A surge coincided with an 11-day war between Israel and the Hamas militant group, according to a report released Tuesday.
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland -- A Jewish civil rights organization's annual tally of antisemitic incidents in the U.S. reached a record high last year, with a surge that coincided with an 11-day war between Israel and the Hamas militant group, according to a report released Tuesday.
ADL counted 297 antisemitic incidents that occurred between the May 10 start of military action and the end of the month, a 141% increase from the 123 incidents that it counted during the same period in 2020. "It's alarming because the vitriol against the Jewish community is coming from all angles," said Oren Segal, vice president of the ADL's Center on Extremism.
"The Palestinian supporters pushed one of the victims to the ground and kicked him. Soon after, a brawl erupted, and subsequent news reports indicated the attackers also hurled anti-Jewish slurs during the melee," the ADL report says. The 11-day war led to hundreds of"anti-Israel" protests and rallies in the U.S., the report says. But the group says its audit didn't include those events unless they"featured slogans or signs that directly linked their opposition to Israel or Zionism to all Jews or incorporated antisemitic tropes."
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