New York – League against the defamation says that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States has reached a record last year and notes that 58% of 9,354 incidents related to Israel, especially deaths, also spoke in the gatherings of the gatherings of developing Israeli policies.
In Report posted on TuesdayAdl, which has produced annual mats for 46 years, said the first time incidents associated with Israel – 5,422 of them 2024. years – make up more than half in total. The key reason is widespread opposition to Israel Military response in Gaza After Hamas attack on Israel 7. October 2023. Years.
The finds of ADs add to the Susivo to an intensive, divisive discussion between U.S. Jews – and others – in which the extent for severe criticism of Israeli policy and zionism should be considered anti-Semitic.
The debate has expanded as the administration of the President Donald Trump makes Criminal moves against university He considers too easy in the fight against anti-Semitism and strives to deport some activists for the Pro-Palestinian Campus.
Sloven, for numerous Jewish leaders, the act of balancing: deking of rough anti-semitemism as well as what they consider exploitation of questions about the targeting of individuals and institutions that do not like.
“The fears of anti-Semitism are legitimate and real – and do not want to see that these real fears are used to undermine democracy,” Amy Spitalick, the Director General of the Jewish Public Council. “I feel that most American Jews can believe that two things are true at the same time.”
In his new report, ADL said that “carefully not to fall into general criticisms of Israel or anti-Israeli activism with anti-Semitism.” But there are gray areas. For example, AdL claims winning zionism – Movement for the establishment and protection of the Jewish state in Israel – is the form of anti-Semitism, and there are still some Jews among Critics of Zionism and from I ADL.
Incidents on anti-Israeli gatherings that have been counted as anti-Semitism in the new ADL, they install “justification or glorification of anti-Semitic violence, the promotion of classic anti-Semitic troppers … and signaling equal to Judaism or Zionism with Nazism.” They have also counted were celebrations of Hamas attacks on Israel and “unpasial support to terrorism.”
“2024. Hatred of Israel was the driving force of anti-Semitism across the United States,” said Oren Segal, leading the efforts of Adla to fight extremism and terrorism.
The report is shown by university campuses as common places for anti-Semitic incidents, saying that many Jewish students “face hostility, excluded and sometimes physical danger because of their identity or their beliefs.”
The experience of these students caused Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism – Roofing Group for more than 800 reform communities in North America – as discussed complexities arising from current developmental anti-Semitism.
“We have an obligation to our campus students,” Jacobs said. “Can I go to the seder? Can I feel safe to wear Yarmulke?”
“At the same time, this current administration has a weapon to fight anti-Semitism weak basic democratic institutions,” Jacobs added.
Referred to custody and threatened deportation Mahmoud Khalil30-year graduate student who served as a negotiator and spokesman for pro-Palestinian activists at Columbia University. Khalil was detained from 8. March despite confronting criminal charges.
“There must be a legal case – not only you don’t like what he says,” Jacobs said. “What was kept by the Jewish people’s rule of law, the process overdue. If it is understood for Palestinians, it will be understood for all of us.”
Adl crossed some progressive Jewish leaders by greeting Columbia acquiescencecence In March, the Adut administrative requests and initially commend the campaign by targeting pro-Palestinian activists such as Khalil.
Adl recent critics include Michael Roth, The first Jewish president of Wesleyan University; Political commentator Peter Bone; and Columbia professor James SchamusWho made his organizations at the Faculty to oppose the observance of the university with the requirements of the administration.
Washington Post Columnist Matt Bai wrote a Scenting column About ADL 1. April.
“You cannot convene the organization for civil rights in the United States – let alone a civil rights organization on a minority that is brutally evolved around the world, not loudly oppose the cruel and illegal removal of the parties,” Bai wrote.
Two days later, the Director General of ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, wrote piece of opinion For ejewishphilanthropy seeking the distance of ADL from the aspects of the Trump Administration Packet on Pro-Palestinian activists.
“As an organization that fought for a minority for more than 100 years, AdL is incredibly sensitive to the importance of enabling everything to express themselves – even those who threads or most Americans do not agree,” Greenblatt wrote. “We should keep people responsible for real crimes rather than organs.”
“We can protect civilians of Jewish students even as we preserve the civic freedoms of those who protest, mistreat or attack because they are innocent until proven guilty,” he added. “If we sacrifice our constitutional freedoms in search of certainty, we only undermine the establishment of a varied, pluralistic society we want to defend.”
In addition to Israel-related incidents, these were among other findings in the new ADL report:
– Total number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2024. It has risen by 344% of five years ago.
– 196 incidents, targeting more than 250 people, are categorized as an attack; None of these attacks were fatal.
– 2.606 incidents were categorized as vandalism. Swastaks were present in 37% of these cases.
– There were 647 threats of bombs, most of them target the synagogues.
– Anti-Semitic incidents occurred in all 50 countries and Columbia County. More than 10% of incidents happened in New York.
– There were 962 “anti-Semitic propaganda incidents” associated with white supremacist groups. Three groups – Patriot Front, Goyim Defense League and a network of white lives – were responsible for 94% of this activity.
Adl says that his annual report was defined by criminal-necrimental acts of harassment, vandalism and attacks on individuals and groups of victims, law enforcement, media and partner organizations, and then evaluated ADL experts.
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