Antisemitic hate crimes in U.S. surged to all-time high last year: FBI

"Anti-Jewish hate crimes in the United States soared 63% in 2023, the highest on record, according to data released Monday by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The statistics come amid an unprecedented burst of antisemitism around the globe, including in the United States, following the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre in southern Israel.

According to FBI figures, which are considered to be conservative since many hate crimes go unreported, there were a total of 1,832 antisemitic incidents in the United States last year, as compared with 1,124 in 2022, though the number in 2023 doesn’t indicate whether the crimes occurred before or after the single largest attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. There were some 236 anti-Muslim hate crime incidents reported last year, up from 158 the year before.

Although Jews make up about 2% of the U.S. population, antisemitic incidents comprised 15% of all hate crimes officially recorded in the country in 2023, and 68% of all religion-base hate crimes, a figure in keeping with previous years.

‘At a time when the Jewish community is still suffering from the sharp rise in antisemitism following Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, the record-high number of anti-Jewish hate crime incidents is unfortunately entirely consistent with the Jewish community’s experience and ADL’s tracking,’ said Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the New York-based Anti-Defamation League, in a statement Monday..."