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Thanks, Matt for bringing this up. It is disturbing.
New York, NY, March 24, 2004 … The number of anti-Semitic incidents remained at a consistent and disturbing level in 2003, according to newly released statistics from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The annual ADL Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, issued today, counted a total of 1,557 anti-Semitic incidents across the United States in 2003, as compared with 1,559 incidents reported in 2002.
“Though the number of anti-Semitic incidents has remained virtually unchanged in the United States, the levels continue to be disturbing and unacceptable,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, and author of Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism. “While we take comfort that America has not witnessed the kind of raw manifestations of anti-Jewish hatred that has plagued parts of Europe and other nations in recent years, there is a consistent wellspring of anti-Semitic activity in the United States that continues to concern Jewish communities.”
http://www.adl.org/presrele/asus_12/p_audit_2003.gif
Anti-Semitic incidents included in the Audit comprise physical and verbal assaults, harassment, property defacement, vandalism and other expressions of anti-Jewish sentiment. Among the most serious incidents reported in 2003 were an arson attack that destroyed a Holocaust museum in Indiana, the attempted firebombing of a synagogue in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and swastikas and epithets spray-painted on the walls, driveway and a congregant’s car at a Jewish community center near Phoenix, Arizona.
In early 2003 Mel Gibson announced the making of his forthcoming film, “The Passion of the Christ.” What followed was a nearly year-long controversy that elicited hateful anti-Semitic e-mails and letters to ADL and other Jewish organizations, as well as journalists, religious leaders and those who commented critically on the film.
“As the controversy over Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion of the Christ” continued to be debated on the American scene, ADL and others who were speaking out about it received a barrage of hate mail filled with ugly anti-Semitism,” said Mr. Foxman. “While these messages were not included in the total count, since messages sent on the Internet are very difficult to quantify, the hate mail was an indication of the anti-Semitic feelings that were stirred as a result of the Jewish concerns about the film.”
adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/4464_12.htm
New York, NY, March 24, 2004 … The number of anti-Semitic incidents remained at a consistent and disturbing level in 2003, according to newly released statistics from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The annual ADL Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, issued today, counted a total of 1,557 anti-Semitic incidents across the United States in 2003, as compared with 1,559 incidents reported in 2002.
“Though the number of anti-Semitic incidents has remained virtually unchanged in the United States, the levels continue to be disturbing and unacceptable,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, and author of Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism. “While we take comfort that America has not witnessed the kind of raw manifestations of anti-Jewish hatred that has plagued parts of Europe and other nations in recent years, there is a consistent wellspring of anti-Semitic activity in the United States that continues to concern Jewish communities.”
http://www.adl.org/presrele/asus_12/p_audit_2003.gif
Anti-Semitic incidents included in the Audit comprise physical and verbal assaults, harassment, property defacement, vandalism and other expressions of anti-Jewish sentiment. Among the most serious incidents reported in 2003 were an arson attack that destroyed a Holocaust museum in Indiana, the attempted firebombing of a synagogue in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and swastikas and epithets spray-painted on the walls, driveway and a congregant’s car at a Jewish community center near Phoenix, Arizona.
In early 2003 Mel Gibson announced the making of his forthcoming film, “The Passion of the Christ.” What followed was a nearly year-long controversy that elicited hateful anti-Semitic e-mails and letters to ADL and other Jewish organizations, as well as journalists, religious leaders and those who commented critically on the film.
“As the controversy over Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion of the Christ” continued to be debated on the American scene, ADL and others who were speaking out about it received a barrage of hate mail filled with ugly anti-Semitism,” said Mr. Foxman. “While these messages were not included in the total count, since messages sent on the Internet are very difficult to quantify, the hate mail was an indication of the anti-Semitic feelings that were stirred as a result of the Jewish concerns about the film.”
adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/4464_12.htm