ADL: Rate of antisemitic incidents in US quadrupled following October 7

Antisemitism in the United States has “skyrocketed” in the three months since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, according to data tallied by the Anti-Defamation League.

There were 3,283 antisemitic incidents in the United States between Oct. 7 and Jan. 7, according to the ADL’s report — including 60 physical assaults. It also counted 553 incidents of vandalism and 1,353 incidents of harassment.

The total number of incidents during the past three months is more than four times the number that occurred during the same period last year. The figure is higher than the total the group has recorded over the course of any full calendar year aside from 2022.

By comparison, the ADL counted 2,717 antisemitic incidents during the entirety of 2021. In the whole of 2014, the year of Israel’s last ground invasion of Gaza, the ADL recorded just 912 antisemitic incidents.

The main driver of antisemitism over the past three months, according to the group, is the Israel-Hamas war that began with the Oct. 7 invasion: The ADL said two-thirds of the incidents “included verbal, written, or contextual references to Israel or Zionism.” Forty percent of the incidents tallied in the report — a total of 1,317 — were pro-Palestinian rallies that included “expressions of support for terrorism against the State of Israel and/or anti-Zionism.”