Audit: Anti-semitic Incidents Up By 21% In 2014

After a decade-long national decline in reported incidents of anti-Semitism, calendar year 2014 saw a 21 percent increase in such occurrences, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents released Monday. According to that audit, there were 912 episodes of anti-Semitism reported to the ADL’s 27 offices around the country in 2014, compared with 751 in 2013. Four of those reported incidents were from New Mexico, said Suki Halevi, the ADL’s New Mexico regional director.

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