The Anti-Defamation League’s annual report on antisemitic incidents observed an increase in incidents in May of last year, coinciding with anti-Israel rhetoric from members of the Squad that were strongly denounced by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., last May.
The report stressed that the surge in antisemitic incidents coincided with Israel’s military conflict with Hamas at roughly the same time. “For the entire month, 387 antisemitic incidents were tabulated by the ADL, 297 of which occurred between May 10 — the official start of military action — and the end of the month, an increase of 141% over the same period in 2020,” the report stated. “Of the 297 incidents, there were 211 cases of harassment, 71 cases of vandalism and 15 assaults.”
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McCarthy drew a direct line between the increase in incidents and the remarks of some lawmakers. “Over the past several weeks a growing number of House Democrats wrongly blamed the violence in the Middle East on Israel,” McCarthy announced in May of last year. “In fact, Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Cori Bush irresponsibly tried to delegitimize our closest ally in the region, calling it an ‘apartheid state.’”
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“Within days, this same sentiment of bigotry spilled into several major U.S. cities,” he went on. The report discovered that blue states led the nation in antisemitic incidents, with New York reporting the most at 416. Though adjusted for population size, New Jersey led the nation with 3.98 antisemitic incidents per 100,000. New York came in with the third most incident adjusted for population, with 2.06 per 100,000.
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Different states to crack the top ten in antisemitic incidents were Vermont, which recorded 2.33 incidents per 100,000 population, Colorado (1.59), Rhode Island (1.55), Massachusetts (1.53), Minnesota (1.31), Nevada (1.16), Michigan (1.11), and Nebraska (0.97).
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Of the states to crack the top 10, only Nebraska voted for former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, awarding four of its five electoral votes to the former President. President Biden won the nine other states.
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The ADL, which started tracking antisemitic incidents in 1979, breaks down incidents of harassment, vandalism, and assault. There were 2,717 antisemitic incidents across the U.S. in 2021, which was a 34% growth compared to 2020. Harassment led the way in 2021, with 1,776 incidents fitting the category; vandalism came in at number two, with 853 recorded incidents; assault, which ADL defines as “cases where Jewish people (or people perceived to be Jewish) were targeted with physical violence,” tallied 88 incidents.
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