Anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses spiked 320 percent last year, with more than three-fourths of them in the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents released Tuesday.
The report details a total of 8,873 incidents of assault, harassment, intimidation, and vandalism targeting Jews in 2023, representing a 140 percent increase from 2022. Among the nearly 9,000 incidents, 922 took place on college campuses—a 320 percent increase from the prior year. Seven hundred and thirty-two of them occurred between Oct. 7 and the end of 2023, representing a 1,062 percent increase compared with the same period in 2022, the report notes.
The ADL’s report says the group made efforts to avoid conflating anti-Israel activism with anti-Semitism, pointing out its record keeping comported with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism.
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