ADL Data on Rise of Anti-Semitic Incidents Doesn’t Add Up
A new, highly publicized report from the Anti-Defamation League claims that anti-Semitic incidents across the United States have skyrocketed by more than 400%. But these ADL numbers do not add up...
Anew, highly publicized report from the Anti-Defamation League claims that anti-Semitic incidents across the United States have skyrocketed by more than 400%. But these ADL numbers do not add up – unless one equates opposition to the Israeli bombardment of Gaza with hatred of Jews.
The Anti-Defamation League’s findings that anti-Semitic incidents in the United States have risen exponentially have made headlines, both in America and worldwide (e.g., Reuters, CBS News, PBS, CNN, Washington Post). American Jews are purportedly facing a wave of hatred and violence like never before, leaving many terrified at the prospect of merely leaving the house.
In the month since Hamas’ surprise attack, the Israeli bombardment of Gaza has killed more than 10,000 people, including well over 3,000 children. Dozens of hospitals, schools and places of worship have been destroyed, as Israel has openly announced its plan to drive the densely-populated strip’s population into Egypt’s Sinai Desert, ethnically cleansing them from their land. In response to Israel’s actions, the United States has seen an unprecedented wave of demonstrations calling for a
ceasefire.
DODGY DATA
As proof of this wave, the ADL published an interactive (and regularly updated) map of hundreds of incidents nationwide. Yet included in this map of anti-Jewish hate were 153 rallies and demonstrations for Palestine, which the influential NGO reflexively labeled as problematic, providing no further evidence. There were also 84 further rallies across the U.S. that the ADL claimed “supported terror.” These protests, the organization insisted, included “explicit or strong implicit support for Hamas,” although, again, the map does not explain further.
Data on Antisemitic Incidents and Anti-Israel Rallies in the U.S. Since Hamas's Attack on Israel
This map shows preliminary data of incidents and anti-Israel rallies tracked by ADL since October 7, 2023, when Palestinian terrorist group Hamas carried out a massacre on the Jewish state.
Hover over the map for more details on the data.
Together, these demonstrations represent essentially every major outburst of public solidarity for the people of Gaza, meaning that the ADL has tarred the entire movement as anti-Semitic. This is a highly controversial position, yet none of the news outlets referencing the ADL’s findings informed their readers of this.
Other episodes included in the ADL list are also potentially questionable. For example, one incident in Chicago was described as such: “Individuals at a pro-Palestinian rally chased and physically assaulted an individual holding a picture of an Israeli flag.” From the description, it is far from clear whether this was an anti-Semitic attack or a skirmish between rival groups protesting. If an individual showed up to a pro-Israel rally with a Palestinian flag and was assaulted, would this necessarily constitute an Islamophobic hate crime?
Nor does the list differentiate between trivial matters and extremely serious events. A large percentage of the incidents noted were simply racist signs being spotted. For instance, in Medfield, MA, “a swastika was carved into a portable toilet at a school,” while in Warrington, PA, “A swastika was spray painted on a utility pole.” It is unlikely, however, that toilet graffiti is the sort of incident that comes to many Americans’ minds when they read headlines about a shocking and dangerous rise in anti-Semitism.
There certainly have been extremely serious anti-Semitic incidents in the United States in the wake of Hamas’ surprise attack and Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. For example, in Albuquerque, NM, a man phoned in a (phony) bomb threat, claiming he was in a messianic synagogue with a backpack full of explosives, causing the building to be evacuated. The ADL effectively puts incidents like this on par with marches calling for a ceasefire, thereby tacitly equating the rejection of Israel’s murderous war with a desire to kill Jews.
Some cynics might say that is precisely the point. Historian Norman Finkelstein, for example, has claimed that the ADL regularly announces the arrival of a new wave of anti-Semitism and that these pronouncements often coincide with international condemnation of Israeli violence, and has suggested that these amount to attempts to run interference for the State of Israel, changing the subject to distract from its crimes.
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I’ve never been anti-anything, except slavery—and everything that goes with it—and I believe most Americans and the majority people around the world think the same. But let’s examine the issue honestly, without fear.
Have you ever been made so aware of the generational-suffering of any other racists on earth, who constantly can get away with calling people names followed up with “punishment for profit” like the Satanic Eugenicist Zionists continue to get away with? Take for instance the 1967 USS Liberty attack by Israel, then 9/11, and now the killing of all Palestinians in reaction to Israels “planned FalseFlag operations,” then turn around and demand silent obedience from those they are attacking, as well as the rest of the world...and if you do speak up they will call you antisemitic—which only verifies their own racisms, if not extreme mental illnesses. If anyone can give me the name of just one racist hate group that has a free license to go around the entire world calling people punishing names like the Zionists have been doing for centuries, I’ll give you $10K, today.
Think about the sickness of the minds of Zionists, then compare them with any other mentally ill, radical-racists in history. Are you familiar of any other Satanic group on earth like Eugenicist Zionists who’ve imbedded themselves within every country, worldwide, taken over governments, then modified the policies to give Zionists the right to call people names along with the right to punish you for profit after-the-fact? Are you aware of any “white supremacist” organization, for instance, who goes around calling people “ain’t-white supremacist? People would just laugh, then go about their business. Satanic-leaning Jews and Zionist Christians are the only monsters I’m aware of that get away with this crime, daily, for generations now.
For the historic record, “I have ALWAYS and will FOREVER be anti-Zionist, anti-Israel, , anti-Fascism, anti-Inbreeding, anti-Slaves & Salvers, anti-Blackmail, anti-Torture, anti-Prisons, anti-War of any kind…. But I will NEVER be anti-Democracy, Freedom and Choice.” As a child, and then as an adult, I’ve been beaten and tortured by patriotic, religious zealots from Hell. But still, I can say that none of their punishments turned me into one of “them;” anti-Religion or anti-Human Race.
Let me close by adding, I Love the American fall Holliday season. I’ve always Loved giving to those in need—even when I too am suffering. I Love the winter snow ⛄️ and post-harvest feasting…but have always been intimately aware of peoples around the world going without and have always felt guilty that my taxes allow and are directly responsible for so much suffering, like in Palestine, meanwhile my crooked Zionist government continues demanding Americans give much, much more than necessary, well beyond fair taxes from fair trade, such as soldiers who are “suffered” to sacrifice so goddamn much, generation after generation, and without equitable compensation. All veterans ever get for their sacrifice, if they survived, is lip-service and wasteful government agencies whose directors misappropriate taxes into the pockets of the Pharmaceutical Cartels. Fucking Whores.
I can never be punished good enough by “their” media troll-bots and elected officials to be made to understand how a supposed representative government can allow Satanic Zionists to control all local, state & federal agencies, taxes and spend so recklessly on the Criminal Enterprise of punishment and war for profit, then pass that enormous debt onto us, the poorest of society, and then demand we serve up our lives to protect this Satanic system, indefinitely. But don’t question or hate “them” or you’ll be labeled an antisemite.