ADL identified 1,986 anti-Semitic incidents perpetrated throughout the United States in 2017. This is an increase of 57% over the 1,267 incidents reported in 2016. For the first time since at least 2010, an incident occurred in every US state. The states with the highest numbers of incidents were New York (380 incidents), California (268 incidents), New Jersey (208 incidents), Massachusetts (177), Florida (98), and Pennsylvania (96). These states combined made up more than half (62%)of the total number of incidents. The number of incidents tends to correlate with large Jewish populations.Wall Street Journal reports on the new data. [Thanks to Steven H. Sholk for the lead.]
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Thursday, March 01, 2018
New Report On 2017 Anti-Semitic Incidents
The ADL this week released its 2017 Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents. The report summarizes its major findings in part as follows: