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Anti-Semitic Incidents Surged 57 Percent in 2017, Report Finds
Anti-Semitic Incidents Surged 57 Percent in 2017, Report Finds
The number of reported anti-Semitic incidents surged 57 percent in 2017, according to an annual report by the Anti-Defamation League.
The organization’s Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, released Tuesday, found 1,986 such incidents in 2017, compared with 1,267 in 2016. That increase was the largest in a single year since the A.D.L. began tracking in 1979.
Only once since 1979 has the Anti-Defamation League recorded more incidents: 2,066 in 1994. Since then, the numbers had mostly declined. There were small increases in 2014 and 2015. Then, in 2016, the count began to shoot up.
“It had been trending in the right direction for a long time,” Jonathan A. Greenblatt, chief executive of the A.D.L., said in an interview. “And then something changed.”
That “something” is hard to identify definitively, but Mr. Greenblatt pointed to three likely factors: the increasingly divisive state of American politics, the emboldening of extremists, and the effects of social media. Some of the increase may also be attributable to better reporting of incidents.
The invigoration of the far right, including white supremacists and neo-Nazis, has been on display at events like a rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August that turned deadly when a man drove a car into a crowd of counterprotesters. A separate Anti-Defamation League report released last month found a more than 250 percent increase in white supremacist activity on college campuses in the current academic year. (The count released Tuesday does not include white supremacist incidents unless they had a specific anti-Semitic element.)
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Anti-Semitic Incidents Surged 57 Percent in 2017, Report Finds
And many wonder WHY this is happening.
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
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Re: Anti-Semitic Incidents Surged 57 Percent in 2017, Report Finds
tennyson wrote:
And many wonder WHY this is happening.
During the campaign many worried that Trump's language would give license to bigots to act on their hatred.
There was severe push back, even incredulity among Trumpers.
Now we see objective evidence that hate crimes are increasing.
Is there a link?
Yes, I believe it is obvious.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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