Three new studies on the huge increase of antisemitism in the US over the past year

On this anniversary of the October 7 pogrom, at least three organizations have released reports about the increase of antisemitism they have seen that accompanied the worst attack on Jews since Auschwitz.

The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism has been polling Americans for the past year and see an unmistakable shift of people from being allies to Jews to being haters. This chart summarizes the shift:

The percentage that hate or lean towards hating Jews has gone up from 15% to 25%; the percentage of those who are allies or leaning allies to Jews went down from 41% to 28%.

The ADL issued its own statistics for the past twelve months:

There have been more than 10,000 antisemitic incidents in the U.S. in the year since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, according to ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) preliminary data. This is the highest number of incidents ever recorded in any single year period since ADL started tracking in 1979.

These newly released figures, from Oct. 7, 2023 to Sept. 24, 2024, represent an over 200-percent increase compared to the incidents reported to us during the same period a year before, which saw 3,325 incidents.

At least 1,200 of these antisemitic incidents happened on college campuses. In the same period a year before, ADL recorded about 200 incidents, representing a 500-percent increase.

Of these incidents, over 2,000 occurred at Jewish institutions such as synagogues and Jewish centers. More than half of all incidents at Jewish institutions took the form of bomb threats (only 81 bomb threats against Jewish institutions were recorded in the same period in the prior year.)

ADL’s preliminary data also found that over 3,000 of all incidents took place during anti-Israel rallies, which featured regular explicit expressions of support for terrorist groups including Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), one of the most concerning antisemitic trends ADL captured since Oct. 7, 2023.

Finally, the Online Hate Prevention Institute issued a press release on their latest statistics of online antisemitism.  They break it down into specific categories and subcategories. Here is what they found for the time period of February to September 2024:

Incitement to violence was now more linked to ideology than before – both of the Hamas variety and the neo-Nazi variety. This makes radicalisation into violent extremism a greater threat.

74.5% of all the antisemitism gathered included elements of traditional antisemitism. This is the sort of antisemitism that asserts anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, blood libel, deicide, demonisation, dehumanisation, etc.

37.3% of all the antisemitism gathered included elements of Israel related antisemitism. The vast majority of this content applied traditional antisemitism to Israel (think “Israel controls the media / banks / government / world” rather than “Jews control the media / banks / government / world”). The next most common form of this antisemitism was Holocaust inversion, claiming Israeli is the new Nazi state, or Netanyahu is the new Hitler.

Only 8.39% were antisemitic in relation to Israel without also engaging in incitement to violence, Holocaust denial or distortion, or some form of traditional antisemitism.

Only 1.35% was classed as antisemitism because it “denies Israel’s right to exist e.g. by calling it a racist endeavour” without also expressing some other form of antisemitism.

The link between "anti-Zionism" and traditional antisemitism is quite clear online.

Here are the numbers of specific instances they saw on social media during those six months:

The categories are:

Holocaust related content subcategories

1.1 Denying the Holocaust

1.2 Accusing Jews or Israel of exaggerating the Holocaust

1.3 Blaming Jews for the Holocaust

1.4 Distort the facts of the Holocaust

1.5 Glorifying the Holocaust or suggesting it did not go far enough

1.6 Inappropriate comparisons with Nazis

1.7 Holocaust jokes

Incitement to violence subcategories

2.1 Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.

2.2 Calling for harm to someone because they are Jewish

2.3 Calling for harm to Jewish people in general

2.4 Calling for harm to Jewish property

2.5 Calling for harm to someone believing they are Jewish

2.6 Calling for harm to non-Jews for supporting Jews or opposing antisemitism

Traditional Antisemitism subcategories

3.1 Dehumanising Jews

3.2 Promoting the idea of a world Jewish conspiracy

3.3 Promoting the idea of Jews controlling the media

3.4 Promoting the idea of Jews controlling the economy

3.5 Promoting the idea of Jews controlling government or other societal institutions

3.6 Promoting traditional antisemitism such as blood libel and claims Jews killed Jesus

3.7 Holding Jews collectively responsible acts committed by individuals

3.8 Accusing Jews citizens of being disloyal to their country

Antisemitism related to Israel subcategories

4.1 Accusing Israel inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust

4.2 Denying Jewish people self-determination, e.g., by claiming Israel’s existence is racist

4.3 Requiring a behaviour from Israel not expected of other countries

4.4 Describing Israel or Israelis using antisemitic words or imagery (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel)

4.5 Comparisons of Israeli policy to Nazism

4.6 Holding Jews collectively responsible for Israel’s actions

Antisemitism is becoming a huge problem. For the two decades I've been studying this, the most reliable indication of what the US will be like in several years is what western Europe is like now.

This is scary as hell. 

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