The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the USA is according to the Jewish organization Anti-Defamation League (ADL) last year increased by 140 percent compared to the previous year.
In total, there were 8,873 attacks, harassment and vandalism incidents – an average of 24 per day, the ADL said at a press conference on Tuesday New York with. These include criminal and non-criminal acts.
The increase was at least partly due to the unprecedented massacre carried out by terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups in Israel near the border with Gaza on October 7, 2023, and Israel’s subsequent response with massive air strikes and a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, it said from the ADL.
The ADL, which was founded in 1913, says it collected the data based, among other things, on information from victims and law enforcement authorities.