Overview

• The Anti-Defamation League documented over 10,000 antisemitic incidents from October 2023 to September 2024, marking a more than 200% increase year to year.
• On May 21, a gunman shouting “Free Palestine” fatally shot two Israeli embassy staffers outside a Jewish museum in Washington D.C.
• On June 1, a Colorado attacker used a makeshift flamethrower at a Jewish solidarity rally, injuring twelve participants.
• Palestinian and Muslim Americans have faced parallel hate crimes, including the October murder of six-year-old Wadea al-Fayoume and shootings of Arabic-speaking students.
• The White House cut federal funding for universities over campus antisemitism, deported visa holders linked to hate crimes and convened a federal hate-crimes task force.