{"id":68714,"date":"2018-03-02T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68714"},"modified":"2018-03-01T18:00:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T23:00:47","slug":"wash-post-anti-semitic-incidents-soared-in-2017-marking-nations-largest-single-year-increase-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68714","title":{"rendered":"(Wash Post) Anti-Semitic incidents soared in 2017, marking nation\u2019s largest single-year increase, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Semitic activities in the United States shot up an unprecedented 57 percent last year, marked by hate crimes in schools and bomb threats against Jewish institutions, according to a report released Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League.<\/p>\n<p>The ADL\u2019s 2017 Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents identified 1,986 examples of anti-Semitic harassment, vandalism and assault in 2017, the largest single-year increase and the second-highest number since it started tracking the data in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Vandalism was up by 86 percent, and incidents targeting Jewish schools, community centers, museums and synagogues had surged by 101 percent since 2016, the report found. The number of anti-Semitic incidents in K-12 schools has roughly doubled each year for the past two years, the report said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2018\/02\/27\/anti-semitic-incidents-soared-in-past-year-anti-defamation-league-report-finds\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Semitic activities in the United States shot up an unprecedented 57 percent last year, marked by hate crimes in schools and bomb threats against Jewish institutions, according to a report released Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL\u2019s 2017 Audit<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68714\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[429,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judaism","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68716,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68714\/revisions\/68716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}