- California has the highest number of extremist-related murders and the second-highest number of antisemitic crimes in the U.S., according to the Anti-Defamation League.
- The ADL report found that antisemitic incidents in California last year were up 41% from 2021.
- Instances of white supremacist propaganda being distributed in California increased by 91% from 2021 to 2022, according to the civil rights organization.Â
More than 500 antisemitic acts targeting Jewish people, including assault, vandalism and harassment, were committed in California last year, an increase of more than 40% from 2021, underscoring a proliferation of hate crimes and extremism in the state, according to a report released Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League.
The ADL also cited increasing collaboration among extremist and white supremacist groups in a report detailing a wide range of hate crimes and violence. California saw at least six murders by members of extremist groups in 2021 and 2022 — the most in the nation — with three being linked to white supremacist groups, the report found.
The report on California comes after the Anti-Defamation League released another report, in collaboration with Tel Aviv University’s Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, that shows antisemitic incidents are at a new high worldwide, with the upward trend intensifying in the U.S.
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In California, it found at least 518 antisemitic acts were committed in 2022, second only to New York with 580 incidents. That figure is a 41% increase from 2021, it said.
“There’s a common thread that connects every part of California, north and south, east and west, and that’s hate in all its forms,” Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League Center of Extremism, said at a news conference Tuesday. “Addressing the proliferation of extremism, antisemitism and hate is not only a profound challenge, it is one of the…
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