A group of high school coaches in Canton, Ohio, are on administrative leave after forcing a Hebrew Israelite player to eat pork as a punishment for missing practice.
When Justin Shaw heard that Ohio last year experienced the highest number of antisemitic incidents in more than 40 years, he wasn t surprised.
The director of Jewish community relations at the area nonprofit JewishColumbus noted that incidents have been rising for the past few years, and with COVID-19, it s become easier for people to harass Jewish people online. There s been more propaganda, more rhetoric, said Shaw, whose organization is focused on philanthropy and supporting community programs. Zoom-bombings have been more of an issue, and to be honest, I think some of it is underreported.
There likely were more incidents, he said, than even appeared in the report released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) last week, which says 43 were disclosed in 2020.
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ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt spoke about the organization’s 2020 audit of antisemitic incidents titled Fighting Hate from Home: 2020 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents & the State of Antisemitism in the U.S. Screenshot by David Rullo.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, and months of restricted activities, the number of antisemitic incidents in the United States remained high in 2020, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit on antisemitism.
The findings were released during an April 27 Zoom webinar during which the ADL reported 2,024 incidents against American Jews last year, down 4% from 2019. Still, 2020 was “the third highest year for incidents against American Jews since the ADL started tracking such data in 1979,” said Deb Leipzig, ADL’s vice president of leadership.