Anti-Defamation League CEO and National Director Jonathan Greenblatt warned Sunday of a potential rise in antisemitism as the one-year mark of the most recent Israel-Hamas conflict approaches Monday.
“The anti-Israel groups on campus are planning a week of rage to start tomorrow, on 10/7, when we are trying to commemorate those we lost in this heinous, unprovoked attack,” Greenblatt said on CNN’s State of the Union. “I can’t think of anything more grotesque than these pro-Hamas groups, which, by the way, they were mourning the death of Nasrallah two weeks ago, a man with American blood on his hands.”
Greenblatt later acknowledged Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, was the leader of Hezbollah and not Hamas.
In the year since Hamas’s attack on Israel that prompted the war, more than 10,000 antisemitic incidents have occurred in the U.S., according to a new report from the ADL. The group says the statistic marks the highest number ever recorded in a one-year period.
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“ADL has been around for over 110 years, and we have never seen data like this before,” Greenblatt said. “We are honoring, commemorating, this solemn anniversary of the murder of 1,200 people simply because they were Jewish, right? They were slaughtered, they were tortured, they were killed, they were kidnapped.”
He continued: “And yet, here in the United States, that triggered a tsunami of anti-Jewish hate. And it’s not just the numbers.”