ADL Finds Antisemitic Incidents Increased 36 Percent in 2022, Highest Number Since 1979
Antisemitic incidents increased 49% to 494 at K-12 schools and 41% to 219 at institutions of higher education.
Antisemitic incidents increased 49% to 494 at K-12 schools and 41% to 219 at institutions of higher education.
The district violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to respond appropriately to on-going anti-Semitic harassment of a student.
The former security officer threatened to shoot students on the school playground, as well as their parents.
The department warns that threats directed at HBCUs and other colleges and universities could inspire extremists to mobilize to violence.
The vandalism is being investigated by campus and D.C. police as a suspected hate crime with anti-Jewish hate bias or motivation.
New reports also found a significant increase in white supremacist propaganda and anti-Asian hate crimes in 2020.
Campus officials say the attacks were racially motivated and follow a previous incident involving 51 Zoom bombers who uttered racist and homophobic slurs.
The Cleveland Clinic medical resident had posted anti-Semitic tweets as recently as 2017.
Oklahoma City University’s virtual commencement ceremony replaced the in-person event, which was cancelled due to COVID-19.
The ADL annual report found more than 2,100 acts of antisemitic hate; 56% increase in assaults, five fatalities.