{"id":2222626,"date":"2024-04-16T17:35:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-semitic-incidents-on-college-campuses-surged-320-percent-last-year-adl-finds\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T17:37:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:37:42","slug":"anti-semitic-incidents-on-college-campuses-surged-320-percent-last-year-adl-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-semitic-incidents-on-college-campuses-surged-320-percent-last-year-adl-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"ADL Report: Anti-Semitic Incidents on College Campuses Rose by 320% Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanti-semitic-incidents-on-college-campuses-surged-320-percent-last-year-adl-finds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2222626&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Anti-Defamation\u200c League&#8217;s latest report\u200c reveals a\u200c significant surge in anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses, notably following Hamas&#8217;s \u200cattack on Israel. The report details a concerning 320% increase\u2064 in these incidents, with a focus \u2063on both assault and\u2062 vandalism targeting Jews. Columbia University led with \u200bthe highest number of recorded incidents, shedding \u2063light on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ceo-slams-upenn-for-antisemitism-calls-for-halting-donations-to-university\/\" title=\"CEO criticizes UPenn for antisemitism, urges end to donations.\">challenges universities face<\/a> in combating anti-Semitism.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Columbia found to have highest number of incidents among schools tracked<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tAnti-Israel protest at Columbia (Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses spiked 320 percent last year, with more than three-fourths of them in the wake of Hamas&#8217;s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, according to the Anti-Defamation League\u2019s annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/report\/audit-antisemitic-incidents-2023\">report<\/a> 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\u2014a 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.<\/p>\n<p>The ADL\u2019s 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\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/holocaustremembrance.com\/resources\/working-definition-antisemitism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">definition of anti-Semitism<\/a>. Following Oct. 7, the ADL began counting certain anti-Zionist expressions that incorporated support for terrorism, called for attacks against Jews, or included classic anti-Semitic tropes. When the ADL removed incidents counted under its new post-Oct. 7 methodology, incidents on college campuses following Hamas\u2019s attack still increased 478 percent from the same period the year prior, according to the group\u2019s audit.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 922 anti-Semitic incidents that took place on college campuses, 695 of them involved harassment, 215 involved vandalism, and 12 were assaults. These incidents were recorded at more than 300 universities across 43 states and the District of Columbia. Columbia University had the greatest number of recorded incidents with 17, followed by the University of Michigan, Stanford, Rutgers, and the University of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The report is the latest indication that universities have struggled to quell <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/harvard-students-who-accosted-israeli-classmate-could-face-criminal-charges-the-school-hasnt-disciplined-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-Semitism on campus<\/a> following Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. During a now-infamous December <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/anti-semitism-hearing-highlights-ivy-league-hypocrisy-on-free-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whats-next-great-awakening-or-great-reset\/\" title=\"What\u2019s Next? Great Awakening or Great Reset?\">congressional hearing<\/a><\/a>, the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania struggled to explain why their schools were failing to crack down on anti-Semitism, despite previously taking a hardline approach to other forms of hate. Advocacy groups, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, and the White House criticized the presidents\u2019 responses. The presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania would later resign.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia&#8217;s president, Nemat Shafik, will get an opportunity Wednesday to address the rise in anti-Semitism on her campus during a congressional hearing in front of the same lawmakers who grilled the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania in December.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From President Shafik to every one of Columbia\u2019s Deans, we have clearly and unequivocally condemned antisemitism. It has no place at Columbia,&#8221; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stanford-mental-health-workers-say-university-counseling-ignores-and-intimidates-jews\/\" title=\"Stanford Mental Health Workers Say University Counseling Ignores and Intimidates Jews\">university spokeswoman told<\/a> the <em>Washington <\/em><em>Free Beacon<\/em>, adding the university has &#8220;taken swift and decisive actions to confront antisemitism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Columbia\u2019s &#8220;Task Force on Antisemitism&#8221; released a <a href=\"https:\/\/president.columbia.edu\/content\/report-1-task-force-antisemitism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> sharing concerns over &#8220;repeated violations of the rules on protests&#8221; and a failure by Columbia to enforce its rules. Jewish members of Columbia\u2019s community have been targets of &#8220;racist epithets and graffiti, anti-Semitic tropes, and confrontational and unwelcome questions,&#8221; the report points out, all of which has allowed an environment of &#8220;isolation and pain&#8221; for Jewish students to flourish on campus.\t<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, a Columbia University student group known for bringing <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/at-columbia-an-israeli-designated-terror-group-teaches-palestinian-resistance-101-and-lauds-plane-hijackings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-Semitic speakers<\/a> to campus held an &#8220;unauthorized&#8221; protest in defiance of university directives. The university declared it would discipline the protesters but it is unclear how the administration followed through with that pledge.<\/p>\n<p>The unauthorized protest followed the same student group\u2019s platforming of anti-Semitic speakers, including a member of the Israeli-designated terror group Samidoun, who praised Hamas&#8217;s Oct. 7 terror attack, and Khaled Barakat, a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine activist, who praised airplane hijackings as &#8220;one of the most important tactics that the Palestinian resistance have engaged in.&#8221; Four students involved in the lecture were eventually suspended.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia University tops in tracked incidents. Photo: Anti-Israel protest at Columbia by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images. Last year, anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses surged 320%, driven by Hamas&#8217;s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. The Anti-Defamation League&#8217;s report reveals most incidents occurred post-attack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2088,"featured_media":2222627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pro-palestinian-rally-held-on-columbia-university-campus-2-scaled-e1709843796141.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pro-palestinian-rally-held-on-columbia-university-campus-2-scaled-e1709843796141.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2222627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}