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Dear John, antisemitism is nothing short of a national emergency, a five-alarm fire that is raging across the country, in our local communities, on campuses and online.
ADL has released our annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents in the United States since the 1970s, and we’ve never seen numbers like this — a total of 8,873 incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism across the country.
The total represents a 140-percent increase from 2022 — already a record-setting year — and the highest level recorded since ADL started tracking this data.
This includes a massive spike of 5,204 antisemitic acts post-Oct. 7, reflecting global trends as Jewish communities worldwide face heightened tensions and hatred in response to the massacre and conflict — on campuses, in the public square and at anti-Israel demonstrations. In the wake of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s attack on Israel, we are vigilantly monitoring for ripples spreading from the Middle East to the U.S. and around the globe.
All of that hate in 2023 added up to an average of about 24 anti-Jewish incidents in the U.S. per day. This means that on average, someone was harassed every hour. Or a synagogue was vandalized. Or someone faced physical violence fueled by anti-Jewish hate.
TAKE ACTION
We need your support today. In response to the new findings of incidents of hate in every state last year, the response needs to be similarly widespread. ADL today called on governors’ offices across the country to create their own state-level versions of the White House’s landmark National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism. We need every governor to develop and put in place a comprehensive strategy.
Click here to tell your governor to join the ADL community in fighting antisemitism.
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The Rise of Bomb Threats and Swatting
Bomb threats toward Jewish institutions increased dramatically by over 1,000 percent from 2022. Additionally, swatting was increasingly used as a tactic to put Jewish institutions at risk, with over a hundred swatting incidents targeting synagogues, community centers, Jewish schools and more.
Both bomb threats and swatting campaigns are aimed at terrorizing the community by disrupting religious services and other activities across the country. Watch this video to learn more about this threat and how to respond.
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Each year, ADL’s annual Audit
is an important benchmark that provides a sense of the dangers that the Jewish community confronts. This data becomes part of the national discussion, used by government leaders and the media to react to the threat level across the country. And this year, the message is that we are facing a tsunami of hate that presents a clear and present danger to Jews and Jewish life in America.
There is an average of one incident every hour — insults screamed at Jewish students on campus, swatting threats sending armed law enforcement to synagogues during services, assaults on visibly Jewish people on the streets. It is clear from the shocking numbers ADL is tracking that extraordinary steps must be taken to fight back against this wave of hate.
Together, you and I and the rest of the ADL community will not waver. Together, we will be bold, resolved and innovative in monitoring and disrupting antisemitism every hour of every day.
With your help, we will not and cannot rest in Fighting Hate for Good.
| Sincerely, |
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| Jonathan Greenblatt |
| CEO and National Director |
| ADL |
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P.S. Today (4/16) at 2 p.m. ET, I’ll be hosting a special Fighting Hate from Home webinar alongside experts from our ADL Center on Extremism to discuss these important findings with the ADL community. You can register here.
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