Antisemitic incidents break record for 4th straight year, ADL finds

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) identified 9,354 antisemitic incidents successful 2024, a 5% summation from 2023 and a staggering 926% summation since it began tracking successful 1979.

According to the ADL's calculations successful its yearly antisemitism audit, determination were much than 25 "targeted anti-Jewish incidents" per time successful 2024, much than 1 each hour. In its audit, the ADL elaborate the types of antisemitic incidents recorded: 196 assaults (up 21% since 2023), 2,606 incidents of vandalism (up 20% since 2023) and 6,552 incidents of harassment (up from 6,535 successful 2023).

This is the 4th twelvemonth successful a enactment that the fig of antisemitic incidents crossed the state broke erstwhile records. The ADL characterized this arsenic portion of the "continued post-Oct. 7 spike" successful antisemitism.

"Let’s beryllium clear, antisemitism is an irrational hatred of individuals oregon institutions conscionable due to the fact that they are Jewish," ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt told Fox News Digital. He aboriginal noted that "ADL has been conducting an yearly audit of antisemitic incidents since the 1970s. And we've simply ne'er seen numbers similar this."

Jonathan Greenblatt speaks with Fox News Digital. (James Keivom for Fox News Digital)

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In a merchandise connected the report, Greenblatt decried the "horrifying level of antisemitism" seen passim the country, saying it had go "a grim world for American Jewish communities."

Greenblatt told Fox News Digital that the audit has shown what American Jews grapple with "on a day-to-day basis." He acknowledged that American Jews spell to schoolhouse and work, arsenic their non-Jewish neighbors do, but they transportation a fearfulness that "things could crook connected them" quickly.

For the archetypal time, the ADL recovered that a bulk of antisemitic incidents (58%, oregon 5,452 occurrences) were related to Israel oregon Zionism. Most of these incidents, 2,596, took spot astatine anti-Israel rallies, including antisemitic speeches, chants and slogans. However, the ADL clarified successful its audit that "antisemitic expressions" astatine rallies were counted arsenic a azygous incident, careless of repetition. Of the much than 5,000 rallies tracked, astir fractional included antisemitic expressions, and the ones that did not were excluded from the audit.

Anti-Israel activists protestation extracurricular the United Nations office successful New York connected April 7, 2025. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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The ADL noted that "Students for Justice successful Palestine (SJP) and Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) were the 2 astir progressive organizers oregon co-sponsors of protests wherever antisemitic incidents occurred." 

College campuses successful peculiar saw a spike successful antisemitic activity. The ADL said it recovered an 84% summation successful reported antisemitic incidents connected American assemblage campuses. According to its audit, the enactment recorded 1,694 antisemitic incidents connected assemblage campuses successful 2024.

"Campus incidents comprised 18% of each incidents, a larger proportionality than successful immoderate erstwhile audit," the ADL wrote successful a property merchandise connected the audit.

California's Legislative Jewish Caucus called connected assemblage leaders to code the increasing occupation of antisemitism connected field and support Jewish students. (Getty Images)

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The enactment said it was cautious erstwhile crafting the audit not to conflate criticisms of Israel’s authorities with antisemitism.

"If you are looking for raucous, robust debates astir what’s going connected successful Israel that aren’t antisemitic, fto maine constituent you to Israel," Greenblatt told Fox News Digital. "Look astatine the Israeli press, look astatine the Jewish press, look astatine Jewish organizations from synagogues to schools, JCCs, adjacent astatine ADL determination are a wide scope of opinions."

However, respective of the anti-Israel rallies that contained antisemitic expressions included the solemnisation of Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre that near 1,200 Israelis slaughtered and saw the taking of 251 hostages.

Oren Segal speaks with Fox News Digital. (James Keivom for Fox News Digital)

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While the audit mightiness look similar "doom and gloom," ADL Senior Vice President for Counter-Extremism and Intelligence Oren Segal encourages Americans to spot it arsenic a blueprint for the future. 

"It's not conscionable a information constituent that we merchandise 1 time and past bash thing for the remaining 364 days. It's really a blueprint and a usher for wherever we person to absorption our advocacy, our research, our enactment successful general," Segal told Fox News Digital. He besides said the study is astir "making what is often invisible disposable and past uncovering ways to tackle that."

The ADL tracks instances of hate, extremism, antisemitism and coercion connected an interactive H.E.A.T. Map, which provides a broad dataset of incidents from 2016 to 2024.