ADL Audit:
Anti-Semitism in PA Up 22%
in 2019
Jesse Bernstein and Ben Sales
P ennsylvania saw a 22% rise in anti-Semitic incidents in 2019,
according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit compiled
by its Center on Extremism.

The 109 incidents recorded in Pennsylvania represented the
second-highest total ever, according to data the ADL has compiled since
1979. The rise in Pennsylvania tracked with trends across the country. Last
year saw 2,107 recorded anti-Semitic incidents in the United States, the
most tallied by the ADL since at least 1979, according to the audit.

“We’re really concerned,” said Shira Goodman, regional director
of ADL Philadelphia, which covers seven counties in eastern
Pennsylvania, seven in southern New Jersey and the entire state of
Delaware. “The numbers are really not good in our region.”
In 2019, ADL recorded 150 regional incidents, marking a 159%
A graph shows the historic number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in
Pennsylvania. COURTESY OF THE ADL
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