While this was a four percent decrease from the 2,107 incidents recorded in 2019, it was still the third-highest year on record since ADL began tracking antisemitic incidents in 1979. In 2020, ADL tabulated 2,024 reported antisemitic incidents throughout the country. Antisemitic incidents are being reported at record levels:ĪDL’s annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, which tracks incidents of antisemitic harassment, vandalism and assault in the U.S., also illustrates the danger facing American Jews. For a variety of reasons, dozens of large cities either underreport or do not report hate crime data at all.Ģ. The FBI’s data is based on voluntary reporting by local law enforcement. There were 683 hate crimes against Jews in 2020, 963 in 2019 and 847 in 2018. The number of hate crimes against Jews has ranged between 600 and 1,200 each year since the FBI began collecting data in the 1990s. Jews are consistently the most targeted religious community in the U.S.Īccording to the FBI’s annual data on hate crimes, defined as criminal offenses which are motivated by bias, crimes targeting the Jewish community consistently constitute over half of all religion-based crimes.
