Antisemitic Incidents Break Record For 4th Straight Year, Adl Finds

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) identified 9,354 antisemitic incidents successful 2024, a 5% summation from 2023 and a staggering 926% summation since it began search successful 1979.

According to nan ADL's calculations successful its yearly antisemitism audit, location were much than 25 "targeted anti-Jewish incidents" per time successful 2024, much than 1 each hour. In its audit, nan ADL elaborate nan types of antisemitic incidents recorded: 196 assaults (up 21% since 2023), 2,606 incidents of vandalism (up 20% since 2023) and 6,552 incidents of harassment (up from 6,535 successful 2023).

This is nan 4th twelvemonth successful a statement that nan number of antisemitic incidents crossed nan state collapsed erstwhile records. The ADL characterized this arsenic portion of nan "continued post-Oct. 7 spike" successful antisemitism.

"Let’s beryllium clear, antisemitism is an irrational hatred of individuals aliases institutions conscionable because they are Jewish," ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt told Fox News Digital. He later noted that "ADL has been conducting an yearly audit of antisemitic incidents since nan 1970s. And we've simply ne'er seen numbers for illustration this."

Jonathan Greenblatt speaks pinch Fox News Digital. (James Keivom for Fox News Digital)

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In a merchandise connected nan report, Greenblatt decried nan "horrifying level of antisemitism" seen passim nan country, saying it had go "a grim reality for American Jewish communities."

Greenblatt told Fox News Digital that nan audit has shown what American Jews grapple pinch "on a day-to-day basis." He acknowledged that American Jews spell to schoolhouse and work, arsenic their non-Jewish neighbors do, but they transportation a fearfulness that "things could move connected them" quickly.

For nan first time, nan ADL recovered that a mostly of antisemitic incidents (58%, aliases 5,452 occurrences) were related to Israel aliases Zionism. Most of these incidents, 2,596, took spot astatine anti-Israel rallies, including antisemitic speeches, chants and slogans. However, nan ADL clarified successful its audit that "antisemitic expressions" astatine rallies were counted arsenic a azygous incident, sloppy of repetition. Of nan much than 5,000 rallies tracked, astir half included antisemitic expressions, and nan ones that did not were excluded from nan audit.

Anti-Israel activists protestation extracurricular nan United Nations office successful New York connected April 7, 2025. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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The ADL noted that "Students for Justice successful Palestine (SJP) and Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) were nan 2 astir progressive organizers aliases co-sponsors of protests wherever antisemitic incidents occurred." 

College campuses successful peculiar saw a spike successful antisemitic activity. The ADL said it recovered an 84% summation successful reported antisemitic incidents connected American assemblage campuses. According to its audit, nan statement recorded 1,694 antisemitic incidents connected assemblage campuses successful 2024.

"Campus incidents comprised 18% of each incidents, a larger proportionality than successful immoderate erstwhile audit," nan ADL wrote successful a property merchandise connected nan audit.

California's Legislative Jewish Caucus called connected assemblage leaders to reside nan increasing problem of antisemitism connected field and protect Jewish students. (Getty Images)

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The statement said it was observant erstwhile crafting nan audit not to conflate criticisms of Israel’s authorities pinch antisemitism.

"If you are looking for raucous, robust debates astir what’s going connected successful Israel that aren’t antisemitic, fto maine constituent you to Israel," Greenblatt told Fox News Digital. "Look astatine nan Israeli press, look astatine nan Jewish press, look astatine Jewish organizations from synagogues to schools, JCCs, moreover astatine ADL location are a wide scope of opinions."

However, respective of nan anti-Israel rallies that contained antisemitic expressions included nan ceremony of Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre that near 1,200 Israelis slaughtered and saw nan taking of 251 hostages.

Oren Segal speaks pinch Fox News Digital. (James Keivom for Fox News Digital)

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While nan audit mightiness look for illustration "doom and gloom," ADL Senior Vice President for Counter-Extremism and Intelligence Oren Segal encourages Americans to spot it arsenic a blueprint for nan future. 

"It's not conscionable a information constituent that we merchandise 1 time and past do thing for nan remaining 364 days. It's really a blueprint and a guideline for wherever we person to attraction our advocacy, our research, our activity successful general," Segal told Fox News Digital. He besides said nan study is astir "making what is often invisible visible and past uncovering ways to tackle that."

The ADL tracks instances of hate, extremism, antisemitism and coercion connected an interactive H.E.A.T. Map, which provides a broad dataset of incidents from 2016 to 2024.