Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Anti-Semitism on the Rise in the USA

Nearly 2,000 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded last year in the US, the Anti-Defamation League found. Anti-Semitic incidents rose 57 percent in the US last year. The increase marked the largest increase in a single year since the Jewish organization began recording anti-Semitic incidents in 1979.

"It had been trending in the right direction for a long time," ADL chief executive Jonathan A. Greenblatt explained, "And then something changed."

 While the ADL said part of the increase could be pegged to an increase in reporting of incidents at schools, other groups have pointed to rising right-wing extremism.


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