Anti-Semitic incidents in Florida increased by 40 percent in 2020, according to ADL audit Carli Teproff, The Miami Herald
Apr. 28 Last year, someone hurled anti-Semitic slurs at a Jewish father and his 12-year-old son as they walked in Miami Beach.
A building at a commercial construction site in Broward was defaced with graffiti that read The Jews did 9/11.
And a Zoom welcome session for Jewish students at Florida International University was disrupted when an unknown participant made antisemitic remarks.
These are a few of the 127 anti-Semitic incidents recorded in Florida by the Anti-Defamation League in 2020. According to the ADL s annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents released Tuesday, the state saw an increase of 40 percent in harassment and vandalism last year over the previous year; in 2019, there were 91 incidents.