In 2023, ADL tabulated 8,873 antisemitic incidents across the United States. This represents a 140% increase from the 3,698 incidents recorded in 2022 and is the highest number on record since ADL began tracking antisemitic incidents in 1979. In fact, ADL tracked more incidents in 2023 than in the previous three years combined.Incidents increased in all major Audit categories. Assault incidents increased by 45% to 161 incidents, vandalism increased 69% to 2,177 incidents and harassment increased 184% to 6,535 incidents.The dramatic increase in incidents took place primarily in the period following the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel. Between October 7 and the end of 2023, ADL tabulated 5,204 incidents -- more than the incident total for the whole of 2022. Fifty-two percent of the incidents after October 7 (2,718) included references to Israel, Zionism or Palestine.
None of this is surprising for anyone who reads the news. But even without October 7, the trend was towards a record setting year:
However, even prior to October 7, there were monthly increases in February (402), March (471), April (432), May (437) and September (513). Each of these months broke the prior record for most incidents recorded in a single month, set in November 2022 (394).
And if you assume that the incidents after October 7 were all related to Israel, think again:
After October 7, ADL observed explicitly antisemitic and anti-Zionist rhetoric at 1,352 anti-Israel rallies across the United States. Leaving out all Israel-related incidents, antisemitic incidents still rose by 65% to 5,711 over the 3,457 non-Israel-related incidents recorded in 2022.
...ADL’s 2023 Audit numbers contain 1,350 incidents included due to a post-October 7 methodology update (see Major Findings below). Excluding incidents included under the methodology update, ADL tabulated 7,523 incidents, a 103% increase in antisemitic incidents from the incident total in 2022.
The ADL is careful to exclude any incidents that are legitimate criticism of Israel. Even burning the Israeli flag is not counted as antisemitic. Only things that refer to Israel that cross the line into antisemitism, like this:
Universities saw a huge increase in antisemitic incidents:
ADL recorded antisemitic incidents at over 300 universities across 43 states and the District of Columbia. The campuses with the most incidents in 2023 were Columbia University (17), The University of Michigan (15), Stanford University (14), Rutgers University (14) and the University of Washington (12).Jewish students were targeted in campus residence halls on several occasions. For example, in February, mezuzot were removed from the doorframes of several Jewish students’ residences at the University of Denver. Pork products were also glued to Jewish students’ doors. In May, swastikas made of feces were smeared in a residence hall bathroom at the University of California, San Diego.
The report includes many similar horrifying examples.
The Israel derangement on campus was shown even on October 7 itself:
Immediately after Hamas’s terrorist attacks in Israel, students, faculty and staff on several campuses praised the violence and demonized Zionists and Jewish students. On October 7, a residence hall leader at Wellesley College sent an email to students living in a campus dorm that read, “[There] should be no space, no consideration, and no support for Zionism within the Wellesley College community.” A student group at Portland State University released a statement on October 7 that declared: “Our hearts are with the brave Palestinian liberators fighting collectively for their homeland and people...they have the absolute right to defend themselves by any means necessary.”
But it wasn't only on college campuses. Even elementary and high schools saw a dramatic increase in antisemitism:
A student yelled, “Fuck Jews! I hate Jews! I hate Israel” at a Jewish classmate on a school bus.An elementary school student approached a Jewish classmate and stated that “Jews are bad people” and “Israel is bombing everyone.”A Jewish high school teacher was harassed by a student who stated, “You’re a Jew “and “Your people need to stop killing babies.”A middle school student stated to a Jewish classmate, “Go Hamas, Go Hezbollah....The Palestinians should kill all the Jews.”School-based harassment in 2023 also included one-off incidents such as when a middle school administrator received a note containing antisemitic death threats or when a high school student threatened their Jewish classmates stating that if they supported Israel, they would beat them up.Harassment incidents also included recurrent antisemitic bullying, such as classmates taunting Jewish students with Holocaust jokes and references as well as anti-Zionist comments.The 464 incidents of antisemitic vandalism in K-12 schools in 2023 represents a 100% increase from the 232 incidents tabulated in 2022. Of the 464 vandalism cases recorded, swastikas were present in 87% of K-12 vandalism cases (402 incidents). Vandalism incidents included graffiti such as “Fuck the Jews Hitler was Right (sic),” “We hate Jews” and “I like what the Nazis Did, I hate Jews.”The 26 incidents of antisemitic assaults in K-12 schools in 2023 represents a 360% increase from the five incidents tabulated in 2022. Assault incidents included one-off cases of Jewish students being shot at a high school with a bb gun, a Jewish and non-verbal autistic student returning from school had a swastika carved on his back and a student pushed a Jewish classmate while on a school bus and stated, “You have to go sit up front. K*kes can’t sit in the back.”
The goldene medina is tarnishing very quickly.
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