The Anti-Defamation League identified 1,986 anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. in 2017, up from 1,267 in 2016, and also reported a major increase in anti-Semitic online harassment. “They believe Jews are pulling the strings behind bad things happening in this country.”Of the thousands of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. in recent decades, only a handful were deadly. Long before those incidents, many synagogues and Jewish organizations in the U.S. had been ramping up security measures. In Germany, which recorded 1,453 anti-Semitic incidents in 2017, police officers are often stationed outside synagogues and other Jewish institutions. At K-12 schools, 457 anti-Semitic incidents were reported, including swastika graffiti and playground bullying.

Source: National Post October 29, 2018 12:52 UTC