ADL Says Anti-Semitism Has Dramatically Increased Across US

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According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the US witnessed an unprecedented increase in anti-Semitism in 2017.

They say that vandalism and incidents at colleges and universities top the list.  However, some of the incidents were fake.

RT reports: There were almost 2000 anti-Semitic incidents reported across the US in 2017, including physical assaults, bomb threats, vandalism, and attacks on Jewish institutions, according to a report released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday.

The number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2017 increased by 57 percent compared to 2016, the single largest increase on record and the second-highest number reported since ADL started keeping track in 1979, the organization said. Incidents of vandalism increased 86 percent from 2016, with 952 incidents recorded.

“These incidents came at a time when we saw a rising climate of incivility, the emboldening of hate groups and widening divisions in society,” said ADL’s CEO and National Director Jonathan A. Greenblatt.

The report reveals that the number of anti-Semitic incidents soared in schools and on college campuses, nearly doubling for the second year in a row. College campuses witnessed a total of 204 incidents in 2017, compared to 108 incidents in 2016.

The vast majority of the incidents fell under the category of “harassment,” which the ADL defines as “where a Jewish person or group of people feel harassed by the perceived anti-Semitic words, spoken or written, or actions of someone else.”

This category includes the 163 bomb threats against Jewish community centers. However, the vast majority of those were actually made by a Jewish teenager living in Israel who was eventually arrested. US federal authorities also believe that the teenager was selling his services on the dark web.

Another half-dozen bomb scares directed at the Jewish community were made by an American journalist, who was imprisoned after he admitted to sending Jewish groups bomb threats in order to intimidate his ex-girlfriend.

Without these threats, the total number of harassment cases would be 852, which is still an 18 percent increase over the 2016 figure, the ADL said. Yet the cases were included in the total count “because, regardless of the motivation of any specific perpetrator, Jewish communities were repeatedly traumatised by these assaults on their institutions and threats to their safety,” ADL said, noting that they “meet the textbook definition of hate crimes.”

The League says that it “is careful to not conflate general criticism of Israel or anti-Israel activism with anti-Semitism.” It does include “cases of picketing of Jewish religious or cultural institutions for purported support for Israel” as incidents of anti-Semitism, however.

The ADL is a US-based, Jewish, pro-Israel organization that is dedicated to eradicating anti-Semitic hate crime. The organization previously attacked the boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) movement designed to put pressure on Israel over its 50-year military occupation of the West Bank.

7 Comments

  1. I am not surprised at all, after seeing my cohorts behave the way they do & always support communistic ideas – very disgusting

  2. Why is it called the ADL?…why isn’t it called the AKL Anti Khazarian League.. because they are not Jews..they are Khazarians…These people are not descendants of the 12 tribes .. I have asked many of them…”which tribe is your lineage”.?…. yep you guessed it.. they have absolutely no idea…..that’s because they have no actual lineage to the 12 tribes… their ancestors were converts to Kabalism in Sth Russia… hundreds of years ago….. they are in it for the money and the land… nothing more nothing less….

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  3. ADL was no fan of President Trump, and that is coming from a Jewish person who saw some of their material.

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