New report finds nearly 200% increase in antisemitic incidents in US since Oct. 7 Hamas terror massacre

A caller study from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) recovered that antisemitic incidents successful the U.S. roseate implicit 200% pursuing the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre successful Israel arsenic compared to the aforesaid play the twelvemonth before. 

The study from the ADL Center connected Extremism recorded implicit 10,000 antisemitic incidents pursuing the Hamas violent onslaught successful Israel – the astir recorded successful immoderate azygous twelvemonth since the radical started tracking them successful 1979. In the twelvemonth anterior to Oct. 7, the halfway recorded 3,325 incidents. 

"Today, we mourn the victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas onslaught successful Israel, marking 1 twelvemonth since the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust," Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO, said successful a property merchandise alongside the report’s publication. 

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Several headstones astatine the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery connected Ridge Road were spray painted with reddish swastikas connected Nov. 11, 2023. (FOX 8 Cleveland)

"From that time on, Jewish Americans haven’t had a azygous infinitesimal of respite," Greenblatt said. "Instead, we’ve faced a shocking fig of antisemitic threats and experienced calls for much unit against Israelis and Jews everywhere."

Of the astir 10,000 incidents recorded, the ADL broke them down into 3 antithetic types: Over 8,000 verbal oregon written harassment, implicit 1,840 incidents of vandalism and implicit 150 carnal assaults. 

Graffiti recovered connected a nutrient motortruck successful Montauk, reading, "Free Palestine" adjacent to a swastika.  (Splash News)

Around 12% of these incidents occurred connected assemblage campuses compared to astir 200 incidents successful the aforesaid play successful the erstwhile year. 

Around 20% of those incidents occurred astatine "Jewish institutions," which includes synagogues and Jewish centers, but astir 30% of the incidents occurred during anti-Israel rallies. The ADL did not clarify however overmuch overlap it recovered among these antithetic groupings. 

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However, the radical did clarify that it recorded 8,873 antisemitic incidents successful 2023 alone, marking a 140% summation from the erstwhile year, and that it volition person finalized figures successful 2025 arsenic it continues to survey partners, instrumentality enforcement and victims – from which it expects the fig to proceed rising. 

Experts and watchdog groups person raised the alarm implicit the increasing fig of antisemitic incidents, not conscionable successful the U.S. but successful Europe arsenic well: The Community Security Trust successful the United Kingdom reported successful March 2024 that it recorded astatine slightest 2,093 antisemitic incidents crossed the state betwixt Oct. 7 and Dec. 13, 2023. 

Police marque an apprehension arsenic they face-off with anti-Israel students aft destroying portion of the encampment barricade connected the field of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) successful Los Angeles, California, aboriginal connected May 2, 2024. Police deployed a dense beingness connected US assemblage campuses connected May 1 aft forcibly clearing distant immoderate weeks-long protests against Israel. (Etienne Laurent / AFP / Getty)

The radical called it the "highest-ever full reported" crossed a astir two-month play since it started signaling specified incidents successful 1984. 

"I deliberation radical are feeling tense and nervous, peculiarly with marches taking spot each Saturday," Jake Wallis Simons, editor-in-chief of the London-based Jewish Chronicle, told Fox News Digital from England astatine the time. 

On Saturday, thousands marched against Israel successful London with observers complaining of the ample magnitude of antisemitic imagery and slogans connected show astatine the protests.

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Canada has besides seen a monolithic spike successful incidents, focused astir Jewish institutions, including schools, assemblage centers and synagogues, arsenic good arsenic respective of the country's universities. 

In a statement connected X, Israel's Consul General to Montréal Paul Hirschorn warned, "Montréal is present ranked 1 of the astir unsafe places successful the satellite to beryllium visibly Jewish. 9 times Jewish assemblage buildings person been changeable astatine oregon petrol bombed - synagogues, schools, assemblage centers. Just this week radical were identified with petrol-bombs adjacent synagogues (and fortunately prevented from perpetrating what they had planned). The authorities released them to spell home. I conjecture they said they would behave themselves."

An anti-Israel motion with the operation "from the stream to the oversea Palestine volition beryllium free" astatine a protestation adjacent Tulane University successful New Orleans. The operation has been criticized arsenic calling for the demolition of Israel.  (Credit: Ryan Zamos)

"Statistically, hate crimes successful Canada person accrued northbound of 132%, with the immense bulk of those crimes targeting the Jewish community," Casey Babb, who teaches courses connected coercion and planetary information astatine the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs successful Ottawa, told Fox News Digital earlier this year. 

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"Indeed, this whitethorn beryllium the astir antisemitic clip successful our country's history," Babb said. "I'd spell arsenic acold arsenic suggesting Canada, for a assortment of reasons, has go 1 of the astir hostile nations successful the West for Jews."

Fox News Digital’s Benjamin Weinthal contributed to this report.