Anti-Semitic incidents have surged by 500% since October 7, 2023, with 1,200 reported incidents, according to new data from the Anti-Defamation League.
Following Hamas’ October 7 terrorist massacre of Israeli civilians in southern Israel — the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust — many campuses have been engulfed in protests. Students at campuses around the nation have been documented defending Hamas’s attack, chanting ethnic cleansing slogans against Israel, and setting up encampments that have led to the harassment and intimidation of Jewish students.
In the previous year’s same period, 200 anti-Semitic incidents were reported on college campuses, according to the ADL.
“From that day on, Jewish Americans haven’t had a single moment of respite,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO. “Instead, we’ve faced a shocking number of antisemitic threats and experienced calls for more violence against Israelis and Jews everywhere.”
The Daily Wire has extensively reported on anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses, including Columbia student Khymani James saying Zionists don’t deserve to live, and a Jewish student at Lawrence Technological University being suspended from his soccer team after reporting a teammate for assaulting him and making Nazi salutes at him.
Nationwide, there have been more than 10,000 anti-Semitic incidents since October 7 — a 200% increase compared to the prior year. This was the highest number of incidents the ADL recorded since it began tracking in 1979.
According to the ADL’s Center on Extremism, 8,015 of the incidents involved verbal or written harassment, 1,840 were acts of vandalism, and 150 were cases of physical assault.
Over 2,000 incidents occurred at Jewish institutions, including synagogues and Jewish centers, with half being bomb threats. In comparison, such institutions received 81 bomb threats during the previous same year period.
More than 3,000 incidents occurred during anti-Israel rallies, which have been documented to include support for terrorist groups including Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as reported by The Daily Wire.
Hamas outside of the DNC… pic.twitter.com/EWv28v2wJg
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) August 22, 2024
The ADL expects their figures to increase in its final 2024 report, to be released in the spring, as the group learns of more incidents over the past year.
The organization’s methodology includes tracking both criminal and non-criminal incidents of harassment, vandalism, and assault reported by victims, law enforcement, partner organizations, and media outlets.
While incidents in the data do not include general anti-Israel activism, since October 7, 2023, the group began to include incidents where anti-Israel activists support terrorism or attacks on Jews, Israelis, and Zionists.
