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ADL Survey: Despite COVID restrictions, antisemitism barely decreased in US in 2020
By Ben Sales
(JTA) – Despite COVID-related restrictions that kept Americans inside for significant portions of last year, the number of reported antisemitic incidents barely decreased in the United States in 2020, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The number of antisemitic assaults fell sharply, however, and for the first time in three years, no one was killed in an antisemitic attack.
The ADL’s annual audit, published Tuesday, April 26, tallied 2,024 incidents of anti-semitism in the U.S. in 2020, a decline of only 4% from the 2,107 recorded in 2019. The 2020 tally is the third-highest since 1979, when the ADL began publishing annual audits, and is more than double the 2015 figure of 942. The audits are compiled from reports by victims, law enforcement and community leaders.
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Experts: Antisemitic incidents in CT drop during pandemic
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Stamford, Conn., police said swastikas were found on sidewalks in downtown on Nov. 8, 2018.Stamford Police Department / Contributed Photo
There has been an overall reduction in antisemitic incidents in Connecticut according to experts, though online harassment is an increasingly worrisome trend, according to one organization.
“Here in Connecticut and nationally, since the COVID-19 crisis hit the U.S. in early 2020, we have seen some shifts, including a reduction in incidents on the college campus and in schools, and an increase in Zoom-bombing of synagogue and Jewish communal events and other attempts to hijack online events to spread hate,” said Steve Ginsburg, Connecticut’s regional director for the ADL.