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January 12, 2024 
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THE WEEK'S BIG 3

Newly released data by ADL shows a staggering 360% increase in antisemitic incidents in the U.S. since the October 7 massacre against Israel. ADL announced that it soon will be ranking college and universities’ response to antisemitism after recording over 500 antisemitic incidents on campus over the last three months. A new report examines how extremists have increasingly turned to cryptocurrency due to the mistaken belief that the technology offers anonymity and is impervious to deplatforming.  

Read on for more on these headlines, news you can use to fight hate and the latest info about ADL from around the country.

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Antisemitic incidents in U.S. surged 360% after Hamas attack: ADL 

“Antisemitic incidents in the U.S. have more than tripled in the three months following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel, according to new Anti-Defamation League preliminary data. Antisemitic cases involving incidents like physical assault, harassment and vandalism, were higher than the total number of antisemitic episodes tracked in almost every year since ADL started monitoring this data in the late 1970s, the group said Wednesday.” AXIOS:  FULL STORY

+ ADL Tweet: The antisemitic incidents we tracked included 1,353 reports of harassment, 553 reports of vandalism, and 60 reported assaults. We also documented 1,317 rallies with reported antisemitic, anti-Zionist, or pro-terror content.

+WATCH: Jonathan Greenblatt speaks to i24News, provides insights into ADL’s report revealing a 360% surge in antisemitic incidents in the U.S. since October 7th.

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US Colleges Warned ‘Report Cards’ on Antisemitism are Coming

Colleges across the United States were warned Thursday that they will soon be given report cards evaluating the "climate of antisemitism" on their campuses, following a spike in incidents in recent months. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said it was developing new tools to assess the state of antisemitism at universities and how leaders were combating anti-Jewish hate. Report cards will then be published each spring for students, parents, guidance counselors and others interested to use when making decisions about applications.” The Messenger:   FULL STORY

+ ADL Tweet: In the face of growing & unprecedented antisemitism on college campuses, we're developing a new tool to evaluate the climate of antisemitism on campuses & how institutions are achieving #NoTolerance for #antisemitism. We must ensure all Jewish students feel safe & supported amid the rise of antisemitic activity.

+ADL Resources: Antisemitism on Campus

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Crypto's Nazi problem: With few rules to stop them, white supremacists fundraise for hate

“Domestic extremists who receive and send money via cryptocurrency are using major online exchange companies, and those platforms put almost no limits on the activities of hate groups or their sympathizers. That’s the key finding of a new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, provided exclusively to USA TODAY. The advocacy organization found users sent money to white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups including the Goyim Defense League, NSC-131 and the National Socialist Movement, and to online extremist propaganda outlets like Counter-Currents and Radio Albion, all using major cryptocurrency exchanges.” USA TODAY: FULL STORY

+READ: Virtual Money, Hateful Reality: The Cryptocurrency Exchanges Enabling Extremist Fundraising in 2023

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KEY ADL SOCIAL STATEMENTS

  • Tomorrow and Friday, the International Court of Justice will hear the preliminary measures of a case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. Let’s be clear: the accusation is purely political in nature and wholly without merit.
  • As @JGreenblattADL shared, “It’s deeply troubling that anyone would use this incident to draw inappropriate and false comparisons to Hamas tunnels in Gaza or propagate age-old antisemitic conspiracy theories, such as Jews are involved in human trafficking or organ harvesting."
  • These horrifying accounts from a former hostage on the brutal treatment of female hostages by Hamas, along with recent harrowing images of four young Israeli women still in captivity, underscore how everyone, everywhere, must do all they can to #BringThemHomeNow https://timesofisrael.com/former-hostage-tells-lawmakers-fellow-captive-was-sexually-abused-by-guard/
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IN THE COMMUNITY

  • ADL reports more than 400 antisemitic incidents in Mountain States region amid Israel-Hamas war (ABC Denver7)
  • Asheville synagogue targeted with bomb threat; part of national 'hoax' pattern (Citizen Times)
  • ADL: Hate Crimes Surged in San Diego County in 2023 (San Diego Jewish Times)
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ADL IN THE NEWS

  • What makes swatting hard to investigate? (NewsNation)
  • Is Urban Dictionary’s new entry ‘to get Israeled’ an antisemitic trope? ADL weighs in (Times of Israel)
  • Who cares about the John Birch Society now? (The Jewish Standard) 
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ADL En Español

  • La historia del antisemitismo y la masacre de Hamás (YNetespanol, Marina Rosenberg, Op-Ed)
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