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Eugene

(61,964 posts)
Tue Feb 27, 2018, 04:11 AM Feb 2018

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. That’s 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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Read more: https://apnews.com/caf56960410f4422a8db19cb996365e9/Report:-Anti-Semitic-incidents-soar-by-57-percent-in-2017

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Report: Anti-Semitic incidents soar by 57 percent in 2017 (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2018 OP
Unfortunately, not a surprise at all still_one Feb 2018 #1
Shocker! Behind the Aegis Feb 2018 #2
Strange Rethugs hate Jews but love Israel njhoneybadger Feb 2018 #3
Not really strange leftynyc Feb 2018 #4
Indeed bunt homer Feb 2018 #7
I see nobody who responded to this leftynyc Feb 2018 #5
When you have a president who hates everyone who is not like him question everything Feb 2018 #6
We can thank Trump and Putin for this one. Initech Feb 2018 #8
Some "good news" MosheFeingold Feb 2018 #9
You want anti-Semitism, try a "-chan"message board. Archae Feb 2018 #11
Kick demmiblue Feb 2018 #10
 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
5. I see nobody who responded to this
Tue Feb 27, 2018, 08:30 AM
Feb 2018

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)
6. When you have a president who hates everyone who is not like him
Tue Feb 27, 2018, 11:46 AM
Feb 2018

and a base that blames everyone for their "misfortune" except themselves "others" - Jews, blacks, Latinos, Asians in general - are easy to blame.

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
9. Some "good news"
Tue Feb 27, 2018, 12:00 PM
Feb 2018

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)
11. You want anti-Semitism, try a "-chan"message board.
Tue Feb 27, 2018, 05:32 PM
Feb 2018

Some of the posters there are worse than Stormfront posters.

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