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By MICHELLE BOORSTEIN | The Washington Post | Published: April 27, 2021 WASHINGTON — Reports of antisemitic incidents rose in the Washington D.C. region in 2020 to an all-time high, a leading anti-bias group said Tuesday, as people blamed Jews for the spread of the pandemic and attacked their institutions via videoconference "Zoom-bombings." The Anti-Defamation League, which has been tracking reports it receives since 1979, also said Tuesday that the number of reported incidents nationally — 2,204 — declined by 4% in 2020 after hitting an all-time high in 2019. Last year was still the...

The Anti-Defamation League says the pandemic has fueled the rise, with Jews accused of spreading the virus and Jewish institutions targeted with Zoom videoconferencing attacks.

Proposed Maryland legislation expands hate crime law Follow Us Question of the Day     By KIMBERLY SEIF of Capital News Service - Associated Press - Tuesday, February 2, 2021 COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - Judges will be allowed to require people charged with hate crimes to complete anti-bias education programs if a bill to expand the current Maryland hate crime law is passed. Sen. Shelly Hettleman, D-Baltimore, is sponsoring this bill, SB0220, which aims to use anti-bias education programs to reduce the number o...

Meredith Weisel, the senior associate regional director of the Maryland Branch of the Anti-Defamation League, who testified in support of the bill at both hearings, believes in the effectiveness of anti-bias education programs. “Hate is a progresssive process,” Weisel said in an interview with Capital News Service. “It is a learned phenomenon that can be unlearned.” In addition to the creation of anti-bias education programs, SB0220 and HB0128 will also add gender expression to the list of statutes that qualify as a hate crime. Maryland’s current hate crime law includes gender id...