When Words Fail: Retreating to Numbers

October 29, 2018 0 Comments

Recent statistics from the Anti-Defamation-League: (before Pittsburgh)

Number of anti-Semitic incidents was nearly 60 percent higher in 2017 than 2016, the largest single-year increase on record.

There were 1,986 anti-Semitic incidents reported across the United States in 2017, including physical assaults, vandalism, and attacks on Jewish institutions, with every single state included, the one with the largest Jewish populations having the largest share. Anti-Semitic incidents in K-12 schools and college campuses (both non-Jewish and Jewish institutions) in 2017 nearly doubled over 2016. Unclear how many more incidents there are that people did not report for a variety of reasons.

The dark numbers are feared to be large. Over the last decade a total of 71 percent of all hate crime fatalities have been linked to domestic right-wing extremists.

2017:

  • 1,015 incidents of harassment, including 163 bomb threats against Jewish institutions
  • 952 incidents of vandalism
  • 19 physical assaults

And at the Tree of Life now 11 murdered in 2018.

https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/anti-semitic-incidents-surged-nearly-60-in-2017-according-to-new-adl-report

Photographs from European Jewish Cemeteries this summer.

 

And Israeli politicians dare to politicize this as the “results of the left stoking anti-Semitism.” (שאַנד(ע – eine Schande.

And here some history:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/brief-history-anti-semitic-violence-america/574228/

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