World News | Report finds incidents of anti-Semitism on the rise across US

JERUSALEM, April 17 (AP) Anti-Semitism is on the rise in the United States by 2022 and shows little sign of abating globally as political radicals gain mainstream support, researchers said in a report released Monday. .

The report, released by Tel Aviv University’s Center for Contemporary European Jewish Studies and the US-based Anti-Defamation League, comes as Israel begins an annual anniversary commemorating the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust.

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Last year’s report found that anti-Semitism incidents hit a new high in 2021, with the coronavirus pandemic fueling a global rise in anti-Semitism. This year, the researchers said, “2022 does not mark a general reversal of this trend, and it is intensifying in some countries, notably the United States.”

Other countries with large Jewish populations, such as France, Canada, Argentina and the United Kingdom, saw fewer anti-Semitic incidents than the previous year.

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The ADL found that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States has increased by more than 35 percent over the past year, from 2,721 in 2021 to 3,697 in 2022. Anti-Semitism and white supremacist propaganda in the United States has also reached new levels, the group said.

Anti-Semitic hate crimes are up in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, the three cities home to the three largest Jewish populations in the country, according to police departments.

Researchers have found that clearly identifiable Jews, especially ultra-Orthodox Jews, also known as haredi Jews, are the main targets of anti-Semitic violence in the West.

“Haledi Jews were the main victims not only because they were easily identified as Jewish, but also because they were considered vulnerable and less likely to fight back,” the report said.

Rising hatred of Jews in the United States is not limited to white supremacists. “Anti-Semitism on the far right and far left is advancing the mainstream of American culture and politics in two ways,” it said.

While anti-Semitism in the U.S. is nothing new, since World War II, “American Jews have lived in peace knowing that civil society and its institutions are a reliable buffer against discrimination, bigotry, and violence,” the report’s authors wrote. “Violent attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions in recent years have shattered notions of exceptionalism.”

In Israel, the report also criticized the new government’s inclusion of the ultranationalist religious Jewish Power party, founded by the successor of the late racist anti-Arab rabbi Meir Kahane. The paper said the party had “polluted Israeli public discourse with chillingly racist rhetoric that would bring about an immediate end to their political careers in other democracies.”

“What is clear is this: racism is racism, and Jewish racism is just as deplorable as other forms of racism and should never be excused or tolerated,” the report said. (AP)

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