Anti-Defamation League Releases Annual Audit Showing Alarming Rise In Antisemitism
In 2024, 498 Antisemitic incidents were reported to the ADL in Northern California.
In 2024, the Anti-Defamation League's annual audit showed an alarming rise in antisemitism for the fourth consecutive year.
The ADL reports that 9,354 antisemitic incidents occurred across the country last year, marking an 893% increase over the last decade.
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The Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League, Marc Levine, notes that with the rise of antisemitism also comes the rise of Jewish generational trauma.
'It's like having your blood pressure slowly rise and rise and rise, and you cannot sustain yourself at that very high, alarming rate,' Levine tells Fox40. 'We can't have this be normalized, we need to bring the hate in our society down.'
1,344 Antisemitic incidents were reported across California, the second-highest number of reported incidents per state.
'In Northern California, we witnessed 498 incidents of antisemitism, including over 100 acts of vandalism, and really sadly, five incidents of assault, and 89 different incidents occurred on college campuses,' Levine adds.
Sacramento City Council member and former President of the Jewish Federation of the Sacramento region, Lisa Kaplan, says it's not surprising.
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'I think we've lost sight of humanity, and so it makes me sad,' Kaplan said.
For the first time, the majority of all incidents reported to the ADL contained Israel-related rhetoric and elements.
This comes after the Oct. 7th brutal Hamas attack on Israel, which saw the largest number of Jewish people killed in a single day since the Holocaust.
'The day after, on Oct. 8th, there were people celebrating in the streets of our own country, here in America, the death, destruction, murder, rape that occurred by Hamas terrorists,' Levine adds. 'It's almost like accusing the rape victim of rape, and that actually did occur.'
This hatred has been a reality for Sacramento City Council member Kaplan.
She was forced to increase security at home after protesters showed up, harassing her and her family for her Zionist identity and stance on the war. A banner was also previously hung on an overpass comparing her to the Ku Klux Klan.
Kaplan says she didn't report any of this to the ADL, highlighting how underreported these cases are.
'As a mom of two younger kids, it's hard to have that conversation that somebody might not like you because of how you identify,' Kaplan said. 'Violence and treating somebody differently because of how they identify, the color of their skin, what religion they are, is not okay.'
Incidents on college campuses rose more than those in any other location. There were 8 incidents included in ADL's audit on the UC Davis Campus in 2023 and 10 in 2024.
The Jewish hatred stemming from the war has been very personal for Northern California Jewish residents, as Berkeley-born Hersh Goldberg-Polin was murdered in Hamas captivity.
And on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Kaplan and Levine echo the message that 96-year-old Auschwitz survivor Benjamin Lesser previously told Fox40.
'Love and hate are both contagious; choose love,' Lesser said.
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