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Note: 39% of the worlds 15 million Jews live in the US.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported single-bias anti-Jewish hate crime incidents in the country sharply rose by more than 37% in 2022 and comprised more than half of all religion-based hate crimes in 2022.
Jews make up around 2 percent of the U.S. population. Yet, in 2022, according to the FBI data, reported antisemitic hate crime incidents accounted for 9.6 percent of all hate crimes.

Religion-based hate crimes, which represented approximately 18 percent of all reported hate crimes

• Anti-Jewish incidents: 55%
• Anti-Sikh incidents: 9%
• Anti-Islamic incidents: 8%
• Anti-Catholic incidents: 5%

The philological term 'Semitic' referred to a family of languages originating in the Middle East.

Source: Anti-Semitism in the United States: Statistics on Religious Hate Crimes | JewishVirtualLibrary
Antisemitic Incidents Reported to ADL Increase Sharply During Israel-Hamas Conflict May 2021 | Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

Note: Antisemitic incidents during the Gaza War in October 2023 were 4 times higher than in October 2022. Anti-Muslim Anti-Arab requests for help and complints in October 2023 were 3 times higher than in 2022.

In 2023, ADL tabulated 8,873 antisemitic incidents across the United States. This represents a 140% increase from the 3,698 incidents recorded in 2022 and is the highest number on record since ADL began tracking antisemitic incidents in 1979.

Source: Audit of Antisemitic Incidents 2023 | ADL

• May 23 (Redondo Beach, CA): A synagogue received an antisemitic and harassing email from an unknown sender who wrote: "Die fucking jew cockroaches! Israel = racism, apartheid, genocide."
• May 22 (New York, NY): A Jewish man wearing a Star of David necklace was punched by a man who allegedly asked him, ÒWhat is that around your neck, does that make you a fucking Zionist?"
• May 22 (Brooklyn, NY): Three men allegedly drove around Borough Park harassing and assaulting Jewish individuals, including teenagers. They yelled antisemitic slurs as well as, "Free Palestine." The men also kicked a synagogue's doors and broke a car mirror.
• May 20 (New York, NY): A Jewish man was beaten by a group of anti-Israel protestors in Times Square. In another incident, anti-Zionist protestors shouted, "Fucking Zionists" and threw fireworks at passersby, injuring one, in midtown Manhattan's Diamond District, which is home to many Jewish-owned businesses.
• May 18 (Los Angeles, CA): A group of Jewish diners at a kosher restaurant were allegedly assaulted by a group of individuals. The attackers reportedly arrived in cars carrying Palestinian flags and yelled antisemitic slurs.
• May 18 (Bal Harbour, FL): A Jewish family was walking home from synagogue when they were harassed by a group of individuals in a car who allegedly yelled, ÒFree Palestine!Ó ÒFuck the Jews!Ó ÒDie Jew!Ó

Anti-Muslim Anti-Arab requests for help and complints in October 2023 were 3 times higher than in 2022.
Antisemitic incidents in October 2023 were 4 times higher than in 2022.

Sources:
The Anti-Defamation League, is an American Jewish advocacy group
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), is a Muslim civil rights organization,
Why the Gaza War Has Sparked a Wave of Antisemitism and Islamophobia in the US | Voice of America (VOA)

The current (2020-)international Jewish conspiracy or world Jewish conspiracy has been described as "the most widespread and durable conspiracy theory of the twentieth century"

As we have seen in recent politics many people are susceptible to conspiracy theories like QAnon and that COVID-19 Vaccines would change human DNA.
In a 2023 American Psychological Association podcast, Karen Douglas, PhD said "It does make sense to me that there would have been particular periods in history that conspiracy theories would have been more prominent. And personally, I think we might be in one of those periods right now."
See also: People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Psychological Features | ScientificAmerican 2019

There is big money and politics involved fighting antisemitism:
At December 5th, 2023 public hearing before the House Education and Workforce Committee where The presidents of Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) testified on combating antisemitism on college campuses.
They said something like they were trying to balance free speach with hate speach.
Billionaire Harvard alumnus Bill Ackman called on the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to resign "in disgrace". Ross Stevens an U. Penn alumni and Stone Ridge Asset Management CEO withdrew a gift to the University of Pensylvania valued at 100 million.

Biden-Harris Administration Releases First-Ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism

See Jewish Success
and American View on Religions

• IHRA -the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance)
• Judaism is in part an ethnicity, in part a religion, and in part a culture.
• Zionism - A movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann.