Maryland has had dramatic increase in anti-semitic incidents, report shows

BALTIMORE – Maryland is seeing an alarming enhance in hate crimes in opposition to the Jewish neighborhood, in keeping with the Anti-defamation League, which tracks anti-semitic incidents every year.

The Anti-defamation League, which put out its 2022 report Thursday, says Maryland has seen a 98 % enhance in anti-semitic incidents from 2021 to 2022.

Maryland now has the tenth highest quantity of reported incidents within the nation, the report states.

There have been 3,697 studies of hate crimes in opposition to Jewish individuals throughout the US in 2022, in keeping with ADL.

ADL members mentioned that is the best variety of incidents they’ve recorded since they began monitoring information.

“That is the third time previously 5 years that the 12 months, in whole, has been the best quantity ever recorded,” mentioned Allison Padilla-Goodman.

Information from the ADL reveals Maryland had 109 incidents in 2022, which is a dramatic enhance from the earlier 12 months.

Final month, WJZ spoke with Howard Libit, Government Director of the Baltimore Jewish Council, after anti-semitic flyers had been present in a Parkville neighborhood.

WJZ then reached out to Libit after the ADL report was launched.

“Clearly, it is actually troubling,” Libit mentioned. “It is not likely a shock. I feel everyone knows that there are, there’s rising anti-semitism and sadly rising hate in opposition to a whole lot of the acquainted targets.”

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore spoke out in regards to the ADL report.

He mentioned “hate has no place within the state.”