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A few notes about the @ADL Anti-Semitism report:
• Look carefully at raw numbers, not percentages. A 105% rise in anti-Semitic assaults sounds astronomical – until you realize that there were only 22 more incidents in 2018 than in 2017.
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• Look carefully at raw numbers, not percentages. A 105% rise in anti-Semitic assaults sounds astronomical – until you realize that there were only 22 more incidents in 2018 than in 2017.
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Look carefully at the number of and details of incidents overtime rather than taking two raw yearly incident totals and jumping to conclusions. An increase or decrease in one measurement, even a seemingly dramatic one, does not necessarily mean anything.
Despite an uptick in media reports of harassment and assaults against Jews in ultra-Orthodox enclaves, reported incidents of harassment remained virtually unchanged from 2017 to 2018, but up from 2016. You shouldn't conclude anything away from these three data points in a vacuum.
Incidents of anti-Semitic vandalism were down this year and likewise up from 2016 - but the same caveat (you shouldn't conclude anything away from these three data points in a vacuum) applies.
It's worth carefully reading my former colleague @joshnathankazis's analysis of ADL and FBI data from 2017. The takeaway? Most anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. are not physical.
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None of this is to minimize the very real threat of anti-Semitism, both physical and non. But it's vital, if we are to find actual solutions, to keep perspective and consider these issues as level-headedly as we possibly can.
Also, on the right wing vs left wing anti-Semitism question, here's a picture worth at least a few words (this is for extremist and anti-Semitic incidents 2018 to 2019)
Right wing incidents: 1,794
Left wing and Islamist incidents: 6
Right wing incidents: 1,794
Left wing and Islamist incidents: 6
If you take the last 17 years of data (2002-2019):
Right wing incidents: 2,633
Left wing and Islamist incidents: 137
Right wing incidents: 2,633
Left wing and Islamist incidents: 137
On one foot, from @JGreenblattADL – "white supremacy is a global terror threat."
Although only 13% of the 2018 incidents are labelled as extremist-perpetrated, @JGreenblattADL notes that a lot of the data come in from regional ADL offices, so they aren't always sure if other perpetrators have extremist affiliations as well.
Though @orensegal adds the caveat, "Most anti-Semitic incidents are carried out by average Joes and average Janes," not by those affiliated with extremist groups.
Also important to note that neither the ADL audit of anti-Semitic incidents released today or the larger data set / map on extremist incidents which the above figures and images come from include online incidents, only real-world ones.
I don't delete tweets, but have a significant correction: @ADL's hate map disaggregating extremist incidents by right, left, Islamic extremism does NOT include anti-Semitic incidents.
100% of 249 extremist anti-Semitic incidents 2018 were attributable to white supremacists.
100% of 249 extremist anti-Semitic incidents 2018 were attributable to white supremacists.
The figures in this tweet and displayed on the map are for NON anti-Semitic incidents of hate, extremism, and terrorism. (Yes, the filtering options may lead a user to believe they include anti-Semitism, but an ADL researcher clarified that they do not).
Likewise this is for non- anti-Semitic incidents of hate, extremism, and terrorism.
With anti-Semitic incidents, the data are more stark: ~13% of the 1,879 anti-Semitic incidents in @ADL's 2018 audit were attributable to extremist groups or individuals. Of those 249 extremist incidents, all were attributable to white supremacy.
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