Posted on 11/02/2017 11:52:17 AM PDT by markomalley
A new report tallying the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States from the beginning of the year through the end of September found a 67 percent surge compared to last year.
The Anti-Defamation League audit found the greatest increases in schools, with jumps in bullying and vandalism seen from grade school through college.
A bump in anti-Semitic incidents was also recorded after the August "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va., at which one counterprotester was killed when a suspect photographed earlier in the day with white supremacists ran his car into a group of demonstrators.
In the first three quarters of the year in 2016, there were 779 reported anti-Semitic incidents, including 29 cases of assault, 322 cases of harassment and 428 cases of vandalism.
In the first three quarters of this year, harassment reports more than doubled: there were 1,299 reported anti-Semitic incidents, including 12 cases of assault, 703 cases of harassment and 584 cases of vandalism.
ADL CEO and national director Jonathan A. Greenblatt said he was "astonished and horrified" by the steep rises in anti-Semitic incidents.
“While the tragedy in Charlottesville highlighted this trend, it was not an aberration," Greenblatt said in a statement. "Every single day, white supremacists target members of the Jewish community -- holding rallies in public, recruiting on college campuses, attacking journalists on social media, and even targeting young children."
Greenblatt said many school incidents go unreported. "We are deeply troubled by the rising number of anti-Semitic incidents, bullying, and hate in our nation’s schools and we don’t think the statistics paint a full picture of what is happening," he said.
In Healdsburg, Calif., in May, students taunted a sixth-grade boy with swastikas and lighters, telling him he would burn "like they did in the Holocaust." In Radington Beach, Fla., in March, a Jewish student was taunted with Holocaust memes and a classmate drew a swatiska and concentration camp prison number on his arm. In Longmont, Colo., in April, a Jewish high school student who had been the target of anti-Semitic slurs for weeks was assaulted.
After Charlottesville, where white nationalist demonstrators carried Nazi imagery and chanted "Jews will not replace us," the daily average of 2.36 anti-Semitic incidents rose to 4.3 per day.
The ADL's global index of anti-Semitic sentiment around the world found in 2015 that 10 percent of Americans, or some 24 million Americans, hold anti-Semitic views, with even distribution across gender, age groups and religion. Thirty-three percent polled on a number of canards said Jews are more loyal to Israel than America, 16 percent said Jews have too much power in the business world, 16 percent said Jews have too much power in international financial markets, 20 percent said Jews talk about the Holocaust too much, and 14 percent said people hate Jews because of the way they behave.
Twelve percent of Americans said Jews have too much control over the media, 12 percent said they believed Jews have too much government control, and 14 percent said Jews think they're better than other people. Thirteen percent said Jews only care about what happens to other Jews, while 10 percent said Jews have too much control over global affairs.
The new survey found the largest spikes in anti-Semitic incidents correlating with states that have larger Jewish population: New York, California, Massachusetts, Florida and Pennsylvania.
In Brooklyn this September, an Orthodox Jewish woman was assaulted by a man calling her a "fucking Jew." In Pensacola, Fla., this August, swastikas and the white supremacist symbol "14-88" were spray-painted on homes and cars.
Easy when you label a drawing of a sad frog as “anti-Semitic.”
How do those numbers look in demonrat strongholds and muslim communities?
We have Antifa and also more Muslims than in the past. Of course there are more incidents.
Obama’s Islamic invaders — not Americans Not Christians!
The number of Jew Hating Muslims being let into the country has also gone up... coincidence????? NAH....
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Oh, those crazy Amish utes!
Antifa frustration over the Donald Trump victory? We Jews make such a convenient scapegoat.
Corresponding to Obama’s flood of immigrants from you-know-what belief system.
Frustration aimed at one of the most overwhelmingly liberal demographics in America? More likely intentional targeting to develop and feed the narrative of a “Nazi rightwing” rather than genuine antisemitism.
This is an old story: Leftists at play. That, and Moose Limbs.
It is also a product of a biased (which is to say, “Leftist”) media. As in, “define precisely what an “anti-Semitic” incident is.
Before anyone flames me, I’m Jewish. I’ve experienced some in my life, but not much of any consequence. However, I always have my antennae up about this sort of thing...and I’ve seen just about squat in the way of any increase in the last year, save that from Moslems and uber-Leftists (a.k.a. Communists).
Point taken; however, it is an unrequited love between the Left and members of my tribe; just as it is an unrequited lovee between Jews and blacks on the Jews' part.
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