The U.S. has experienced more than 10,000 antisemitic incidents in the year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, according to preliminary data from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Axios reports, It's the highest number of antisemitic hate crimes, insults, bullying and vandalism ever recorded in any single-year period since ADL started tracking in 1979. The incidents, from Oct. 7, 2023, to Sept. 24, 2024, represent a more than 200% increase compared with the same period a year before.Antisemitic Islamophobic and anti-Arab incidents all have skyrocketed nationwide during the war, which became a flashpoint on college campuses. After the Oct. 7 attacks, the Biden administration unveiled new initiatives in response to rising antisemitism.
Of the antisemitic incidents since Oct. 7, 2023, some 8,015 were verbal or written harassment cases, according to the ADL Center on Extremismy. Some 1,840 incidents were reports of vandalism, and around 150 were cases of physical assault. At least 1,200 of these antisemitic incidents happened on college campuses and another 2,000 occurred at Jewish institutions. Since Oct. 7, "Jewish Americans haven't had a single moment of respite," said the ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt. "Instead, we've faced a shocking number of antisemitic threats and experienced calls for more violence against Israelis and Jews everywhere." "It's just one long nightmare heading into year two," said Daniel Karon, who teaches at the University of Michigan Law School and The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
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