"Jews in Australia experienced a record number of 2,062 antisemitic incidents over the year following Oct. 7, 2023.
A new report from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry found that the number quadrupled from the previous 12-month period, when it tracked 495 incidents. The group detailed a rise across all categories of antisemitic incidents: assault, vandalism, verbal abuse and harassment, messages, graffiti, and posters and other public speech...
The Australian antisemitism data follows a slew of tallies in other locations, many documenting a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents in the months immediately after the Oct. 7 attack. The Anti-Defamation League, the prominent antisemitism watchdog, found three times as many antisemitic incidents in the United States in the year after the attack as in the same 12-month period before — an unprecedented rise that was smaller proportionally than Australia’s."
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