CNA Staff, Jan 12, 2024 / 17:08 pm
The number of antisemitic incidents in the United States has surged by more than 350% in the 100 days since the Israel-Hamas war began, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said this month.
ADL has been tracking a sharp rise in the number of antisemitic attacks and incidents since Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7 of last year. The group in November said those incidents were up by 316% year over year; by December that number was up to 337%.
In a press release this month, ADL reported that between Oct. 7 and Jan. 7, those attacks were up by 360% year over year, for a total of 3,283 incidents, compared with 712 incidents during the same period the prior year.
“The preliminary three-month tally is higher than the total number of antisemitic incidents tracked in any year in the last decade, except for calendar year 2022 when the total number of incidents reached a historic high of 3,697,” ADL said in the release.