ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called the new figures ‘shocking.’
By Jessica Costescu, The Washington Free Beacon
More than 10,000 anti-Semitic incidents have been recorded in the United States in the year following Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, marking the highest yearly total recorded, according to Anti-Defamation League data released Sunday. Of those incidents, at least 1,200 occurred on U.S. college campuses, a 500 percent increase from the year prior.
The ADL’s report, which covers the period from Oct. 7, 2023, to Sept. 24, 2024, charts a staggering 10,005 total incidents, an increase of more than 200 percent compared with the previous year, which saw 3,325. This includes 8,015 instances of verbal or written harassment, 1,840 cases of vandalism, and 150 physical assaults targeting Jews.
At least 1,200 took place on college campuses, compared with roughly 200 campus incidents the year prior, according to the report.
More than 3,000 “took place during anti-Israel rallies, which featured regular explicit expressions of support for terrorist groups including Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,” the ADL wrote in a press release.
The figures reflect the severity of rising anti-Semitism in the United States, both on and off college campuses. They’re also expected to grow. The ADL called its new data “preliminary” and likely to increase as the group “receives more incident reports from partners, law enforcement, and victims.”
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called the new figures “shocking.”
“Today, we mourn the victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel, marking one year since the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust,” he said in a statement. “From that day on, Jewish Americans haven’t had a single moment of respite.”
Monday marks one year since Hamas terrorists killed some 1,200 people, raped women, tortured and murdered children, and took more than 200 captives, including American citizens.
Anti-Israel protests are expected to occur in dozens of U.S. cities, including Washington, D.C., New York, and Atlanta, to celebrate “one year of resistance.”
Another report, published last week by the AMCHA Initiative, found that the surge in anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses is especially pronounced at schools with Faculty for Justice in Palestine chapters.
Jewish students at such schools are seven times more likely to face physical violence compared to those at schools without the faculty group.