Posted on 04/29/22
| News Source: Pikesville Patch
Antisemitic incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism, including 55 in Maryland, reached an all-time high in 2021, according to an Anti-Defamation League report released Tuesday.
The ADL's annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents describes 2,717 attacks on Jewish people last year, a 34 percent year-over-year increase, according to the ADL, which began tracking antisemitic incidents in 1979.
That amounts to an increase of more than seven antisemitic incidents a day.
In Maryland, the ADL noted 60 antisemitic incidents in 2021 and the first three months of 22. A year earlier, 47 such incidents were recorded.
In July 2021, vandals struck a Jewish cemetery in Baltimore. Thirteen vandalized graves were discovered on Sunday at the German Hill Road Jewish Cemetery in Graceland Park. The antisemitic vandalism, including swastikas, was washed away by members of the Jewish Cemeteries Association of Greater Baltimore.