NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Monday marked a year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, just as the Anti-Defamation League reported a surge in antisemitism nationwide.
The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) saw the highest anti-Semitic incidents in the United States, adding that the numbers are the highest the organization has ever recorded in a one-year period.
Pew Research reports about 2.4% of the U.S. population are Jewish. However, according to the ADL, the Jewish community makes up the majority of anti-religious hate crimes.
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So far this year, ADL has over 10,000 anti-Semitic incidents.
“Anti-Semitism, which means the baseless hatred of Jews, is one of the world’s oldest forms of hatred,” said Rabbi Dan Horwitz with Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville.
”The October 7th massacre that Hamas committed against Israel really took the lid off a boiling pot, and we then saw an explosion of anti-Semitism,” said Eytan Davidson, ADL Regional Director for Southeast.