Report: Anti-Semitic incidents soar by 57 percent in 2017
Source: Associated Press
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Today
The Anti-Defamation League is reporting a 57 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. last year, the highest tally that the Jewish civil rights group has counted in more than two decades, according to data it is releasing Tuesday.
The New York City-based organization found 1,986 anti-Semitic incidents last year, up from 1,267 in 2016. Thats the highest total since 1994 and the largest single-year increase since the group began collecting this data in 1979.
The ADL said the sharp rise includes 952 vandalism incidents, an increase of 86 percent from 2016. The group also counted 1,015 incidents of harassment, including 163 bomb threats against Jewish institutions.
ADL national director and CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said the alarming increase appears to be fueled by emboldened far-right extremists as well as the divisive state of our national discourse.
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still_one
(92,453 posts)Behind the Aegis
(54,008 posts)Oh wait, no it isn't. Nor is the lack of interest.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)if you understand evangelicals who believe in Revelation.
The "Christian" Evangelical scenario doesn't end well for the Jews.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)is in the least bit surprised. I mean, we had actual nazis chanting "Jews will not replace us" in the streets of Virginia and the president calling them "some good people".
question everything
(47,544 posts)and a base that blames everyone for their "misfortune" except themselves "others" - Jews, blacks, Latinos, Asians in general - are easy to blame.
Initech
(100,108 posts)MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)FTA:
"The harassment incidents included 169 bomb threats against Jewish institutions, nearly all of them by two men. The ADL report said more than 150 bomb threats against Jewish community centers and day schools last year were allegedly made by an 18-year-old Israeli-American Jewish hacker, who was arrested in Israel last March. Separately, a former journalist from St. Louis pleaded guilty to making a string of fake bomb threats to Jewish organizations last year in the name of his ex-girlfriend in an effort to disrupt her life."
So those are presumably non-repeating aberrations. So discount the increase by a bit.
And I also want to know who the perps are.
We're guessing Trumpers. May indeed be them. Statistically, however, the likely perps are immigrants from the middle east and the third world who carried with them virulent antisemitism of home.
Archae
(46,358 posts)Some of the posters there are worse than Stormfront posters.